Documenting with doxygen: put details on top - documentation

Question

I'm using doxygen for a documentation of an Android project. I know doxygen since years. But now I have the problem that I want the details of my class like in javadoc at the top and not at the bottom.
After a short Google search I found the option DETAILS_AT_TOP which would just do what I want but unfortunately this option was removed. So the new method is to use a so called DoxygenLayout.xml, but where is the documentation how that file should look like? In the documentation are only some attributes explained. Where is the original DoxygenLayout.xml which I can modify as I need it?
I had also the same problem with the HTML_FOOTER it is not documented how the original file looks like.

Answer 1

After doing some more research with the command line options I found this:
4) Use doxygen to generate a template file controlling the layout of
the generated documentation:
doxygen -l layoutFileName.xml
So I got my DoxygenLayout.xml with doxygen -l. I just modyfied the order of the details and deactivated the brief version:
<doxygenlayout version="1.0">
<!-- Generated by doxygen 1.8.5 -->
<!-- Navigation index tabs for HTML output -->
<navindex>
<tab type="mainpage" visible="yes" title=""/>
<tab type="pages" visible="yes" title="" intro=""/>
<tab type="modules" visible="yes" title="" intro=""/>
<tab type="namespaces" visible="yes" title="">
<tab type="namespacelist" visible="yes" title="" intro=""/>
<tab type="namespacemembers" visible="yes" title="" intro=""/>
</tab>
<tab type="classes" visible="yes" title="">
<tab type="classlist" visible="yes" title="" intro=""/>
<tab type="classindex" visible="$ALPHABETICAL_INDEX" title=""/>
<tab type="hierarchy" visible="yes" title="" intro=""/>
<tab type="classmembers" visible="yes" title="" intro=""/>
</tab>
<tab type="files" visible="yes" title="">
<tab type="filelist" visible="yes" title="" intro=""/>
<tab type="globals" visible="yes" title="" intro=""/>
</tab>
<tab type="examples" visible="yes" title="" intro=""/>
</navindex>
<!-- Layout definition for a class page -->
<class>
<briefdescription visible="no"/>
<detaileddescription title=""/>
<includes visible="$SHOW_INCLUDE_FILES"/>
<inheritancegraph visible="$CLASS_GRAPH"/>
<collaborationgraph visible="$COLLABORATION_GRAPH"/>
<memberdecl>
<nestedclasses visible="yes" title=""/>
<publictypes title=""/>
<services title=""/>
<interfaces title=""/>
<publicslots title=""/>
<signals title=""/>
<publicmethods title=""/>
<publicstaticmethods title=""/>
<publicattributes title=""/>
<publicstaticattributes title=""/>
<protectedtypes title=""/>
<protectedslots title=""/>
<protectedmethods title=""/>
<protectedstaticmethods title=""/>
<protectedattributes title=""/>
<protectedstaticattributes title=""/>
<packagetypes title=""/>
<packagemethods title=""/>
<packagestaticmethods title=""/>
<packageattributes title=""/>
<packagestaticattributes title=""/>
<properties title=""/>
<events title=""/>
<privatetypes title=""/>
<privateslots title=""/>
<privatemethods title=""/>
<privatestaticmethods title=""/>
<privateattributes title=""/>
<privatestaticattributes title=""/>
<friends title=""/>
<related title="" subtitle=""/>
<membergroups visible="yes"/>
</memberdecl>
<memberdef>
<inlineclasses title=""/>
<typedefs title=""/>
<enums title=""/>
<services title=""/>
<interfaces title=""/>
<constructors title=""/>
<functions title=""/>
<related title=""/>
<variables title=""/>
<properties title=""/>
<events title=""/>
</memberdef>
<allmemberslink visible="yes"/>
<usedfiles visible="$SHOW_USED_FILES"/>
<authorsection visible="yes"/>
</class>
<!-- Layout definition for a namespace page -->
<namespace>
<briefdescription visible="no"/>
<detaileddescription title=""/>
<memberdecl>
<nestednamespaces visible="yes" title=""/>
<constantgroups visible="yes" title=""/>
<classes visible="yes" title=""/>
<typedefs title=""/>
<enums title=""/>
<functions title=""/>
<variables title=""/>
<membergroups visible="yes"/>
</memberdecl>
<memberdef>
<inlineclasses title=""/>
<typedefs title=""/>
<enums title=""/>
<functions title=""/>
<variables title=""/>
</memberdef>
<authorsection visible="yes"/>
</namespace>
<!-- Layout definition for a file page -->
<file>
<briefdescription visible="no"/>
<detaileddescription title=""/>
<includes visible="$SHOW_INCLUDE_FILES"/>
<includegraph visible="$INCLUDE_GRAPH"/>
<includedbygraph visible="$INCLUDED_BY_GRAPH"/>
<sourcelink visible="yes"/>
<memberdecl>
<classes visible="yes" title=""/>
<namespaces visible="yes" title=""/>
<constantgroups visible="yes" title=""/>
<defines title=""/>
<typedefs title=""/>
<enums title=""/>
<functions title=""/>
<variables title=""/>
<membergroups visible="yes"/>
</memberdecl>
<memberdef>
<inlineclasses title=""/>
<defines title=""/>
<typedefs title=""/>
<enums title=""/>
<functions title=""/>
<variables title=""/>
</memberdef>
<authorsection/>
</file>
<!-- Layout definition for a group page -->
<group>
<briefdescription visible="no"/>
<detaileddescription title=""/>
<groupgraph visible="$GROUP_GRAPHS"/>
<memberdecl>
<nestedgroups visible="yes" title=""/>
<dirs visible="yes" title=""/>
<files visible="yes" title=""/>
<namespaces visible="yes" title=""/>
<classes visible="yes" title=""/>
<defines title=""/>
<typedefs title=""/>
<enums title=""/>
<enumvalues title=""/>
<functions title=""/>
<variables title=""/>
<signals title=""/>
<publicslots title=""/>
<protectedslots title=""/>
<privateslots title=""/>
<events title=""/>
<properties title=""/>
<friends title=""/>
<membergroups visible="yes"/>
</memberdecl>
<memberdef>
<pagedocs/>
<inlineclasses title=""/>
<defines title=""/>
<typedefs title=""/>
<enums title=""/>
<enumvalues title=""/>
<functions title=""/>
<variables title=""/>
<signals title=""/>
<publicslots title=""/>
<protectedslots title=""/>
<privateslots title=""/>
<events title=""/>
<properties title=""/>
<friends title=""/>
</memberdef>
<authorsection visible="yes"/>
</group>
<!-- Layout definition for a directory page -->
<directory>
<briefdescription visible="no"/>
<detaileddescription title=""/>
<directorygraph visible="yes"/>
<memberdecl>
<dirs visible="yes"/>
<files visible="yes"/>
</memberdecl>
</directory>
</doxygenlayout>
After a short review of the output I desiced to remove the headline with this small css:
a + h2.groupheader {
display:none;
}

Answer 2

For HTML_FOOTER (and header & CSS) there is a similar command to generate a local copy of the default Doxygen HTML. You can then use the HTML_* doxyfile settings to point to them.
doxygen -w html header.html footer.html customdoxygen.css
Details for this are on this page of the online manual.