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Drupal 7 Theming Cookbook

By : Karthik Kumar
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Drupal 7 Theming Cookbook

By: Karthik Kumar

Overview of this book

<p>The greatest strength of Drupal lies in its design which, when employed correctly, allows developers to literally handcraft every aspect of a site, so that it looks and performs exactly how they want it to. While it is reasonably straightforward to download a Drupal theme and install it, doing anything beyond that is not. Using custom themes requires familiarity and experience with Drupal's theming system, especially if you want to easily administer and maintain your themes.</p> <p>Drupal 7 Theming Cookbook provides a plethora of recipes that enable Drupal template designers to make full use of its extensibility and style their site just the way they want it. It is a well-rounded guide which will allow users to take full advantage of Drupal's theming system.</p> <p>This cookbook starts with recipes which address the basics of Drupal's theme system, including regions and blocks. It then moves on to advanced topics such as creating a custom theme and using it to modify the layout and style of content. With the introduction of the Field API and the growing importance of Views and Panels in Drupal 7, chapters have been dedicated to each feature. You will also learn many techniques for dealing with Drupal&rsquo;s templating system, which will allow you create themes which surpass even the existing Drupal and contributed modules.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Drupal 7 Theming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Inspecting elements and debugging CSS using Firebug


Prior to the advent of Firebug, debugging documents styled with complex CSS was an exercise in tedium. In this recipe, we will be demonstrating the use of Firebug in locating an errant margin that we are looking to modify.

The default setting for comment display in Drupal is to thread and nest them. In other words, replies to existing comments are added beneath them and indented by way of a margin to indicate each comment's specific level in the hierarchy. We are going to find out which CSS file, as well as the rule in particular, is responsible for this margin and modify it accordingly.

Getting ready

For the purposes of this recipe, the comment module will need to be enabled and some test content that involves nested comments will need to be generated using the Devel generate module. It is assumed that the Firebug add-on has been installed in Firefox.

How to do it...

Firstly, we will need to view a sample node in Firefox and locate a suitable...