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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen
Book Image

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen

Overview of this book

This new and improved third edition cookbook is packed with the latest Drupal 10 features such as a new, flexible default frontend theme - Olivero, and improved administrative experience with a new theme - Claro. This comprehensive recipe book provides updated content on the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing experience, improved core code performance, and code cleanup. Drupal 10 Development Cookbook begins by helping you create and manage a Drupal site. Next, you’ll get acquainted with configuring the content structure and editing content. You’ll also get to grips with all new updates of this edition, such as creating custom pages, accessing and working with entities, running and writing tests with Drupal, migrating external data into Drupal, and turning Drupal into an API platform. As you advance, you’ll learn how to customize Drupal’s features with out-of-the-box modules, contribute extensions, and write custom code to extend Drupal. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create and manage Drupal sites, customize them to your requirements, and build custom code to deliver your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Adding CSS and JavaScript to your theme

In Drupal, CSS stylesheets and JavaScript files are associated with libraries, and specific libraries are added to a page. This allows CSS style sheets and JavaScript files to be attached only when they are needed. Themes can be associated with libraries that must always be attached for global styling.

In this recipe, we will update a theme’s libraries.yml file to register a CSS stylesheet and JavaScript file provided by the custom theme.

Getting ready

This recipe uses a theme created by the theme generator as done in the Creating a custom theme to style your Drupal site recipe.

How to do it…

  1. First, create css and js directories in your theme’s directory that will contain the CSS stylesheets and JavaScript files, respectively:
    mkdir -p css js
  2. In the css directory, add a styles.css file that will hold your theme’s CSS declarations. For the purpose of demonstration, add the following CSS declaration...