how to display text in left column using magento

Question

I am new in magento. I want to display a text present in abc.phtml in left column. I displayed it in center using the given below code:

<default>
       <block type="page/html" name="catalog.topnav" template="page/html/abc.phtml"/>
</default>

I wrote the above code on page.xml.

I just wrote simple echo code in abc.phtml

<?php
 echo "Welcome to Magento";
?>

Possible duplicate of [How to create a simple 'Hello World' module in Magento?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/576908/how-to-create-a-simple-hello-world-module-in-magento) — Birju, Jan 30 '17 at 06:51

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 27 '17 at 13:20

2

You need to put your code like this.

  <default>
    <reference name="left">
        <block type="page/html" name="catalog.topnav" template="page/html/abc.phtml"/>
    </reference>
  </default>

answered Jan 27 '17 at 13:20

Dhiren Vasoya

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If it help you, please accept it, So it will help other in community as well. – Dhiren Vasoya Jan 27 '17 at 13:25

how to display text in left column using magento

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