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Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development

You're reading from   Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development Build fast, responsive Drupal websites with custom theme design to deliver a rich user experience

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238098
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Styling Drupal
2. Chapter 1: Setting up a Local Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting a New Theme and Build Process 4. Chapter 3: How Drupal Renders an HTML Page 5. Chapter 4: Mapping the Design to Drupal Components 6. Chapter 5: Styling the Header and the Footer 7. Chapter 6: Styling the Content 8. Chapter 7: Styling Forms 9. Chapter 8: Styling Views 10. Chapter 9: Styling Blocks 11. Chapter 10: Styling the Maintenance, Taxonomy, Search Results, and 403/404 Pages 12. Part 2 – Advanced Topics
13. Chapter 11: Single Directory Components 14. Chapter 12: Creating Custom Twig Functions and Filters 15. Chapter 13: Making a Theme Configurable 16. Chapter 14: Improving Performance and Accessibility 17. Part 3 – Decoupled Architectures
18. Chapter 15: Building a Decoupled Frontend 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Styling the Header and the Footer

In this chapter, we’ll start to use the components from the design system to style the header and the footer of the demo website.

You will learn more about how regions are used to manage the layout and how blocks are used to provide the content that surrounds the main page content. You will also learn how to provide a custom version of every template used by Drupal and how to suggest a specific template based on the context of a page.

We’ll talk about how menus are used in Drupal and how to style them. Finally, we’ll see how to provide more variables to templates not owned by us by preprocessing them.

By the end of this chapter, our demo website will have a fully styled header and footer and you will have learned how to map a Drupal template to a component from the design system.

The topics covered in this chapter are as follows:

  • Regions and blocks
  • How to override a template
  • Template suggestions
  • ...
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