[TYPO3-english] Home page +EXT template not applying

Thu Jan 30 18:35:41 CET 2014

Hi All

New to Typo3 so apologies if this is an obvious one.  We have a Typo3 site set up.  There's a root template and several of the pages below have their own +Ext pages.

I need to add some code to the home page (owner of the root template) but I don't want this to propagate to the sub pages.  I created a +EXT template on the home page and added the code below

page.bodyTag = <body class="homePopup">

For some reason this is not working, the code never gets applied to the home page (cleared cache, temp internet files etc to no avail).  If I add the above line to the root template it works fine but it then applies to all pages which I don't want.  If I add it to a +EXT file on any other page it works.

Any help appreciated
gR