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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Theming with Twig Master Drupal 8's new Twig templating engine to create fun and fast websites with simple steps to help you move from concept to completion

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168737
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chaz Chumley Chaz Chumley
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Our Development Environment 2. Theme Administration FREE CHAPTER 3. Dissecting a Theme 4. Getting Started – Creating Themes 5. Prepping Our Project 6. Theming Our Homepage 7. Theming Our Interior Page 8. Theming Our Blog Listing Page 9. Theming Our Blog Detail Page 10. Theming Our Contact Page 11. Theming Our Search Results 12. Tips, Tricks, and Where to Go from Here Index

Reusing Twig templates

If we look at our themes templates folder, we can see that we have created quite a few Twig templates. While having an abundance of Twig templates is not necessarily a bad thing, it does become a little bit harder to manage our code.

One powerful feature of Twig templates is that they allow us to address this by extending or sharing markup between each template. This is great for global sections of markup. For example, the header and footer of our page never change, so why have the same markup in both page templates?

Using extends to share layouts

Twig {% extends %} allows us to share markup between templates by extending a template from another one. In our case, we could use this Twig function by extending the page.html.twig template from our page--front.html.twig template.

Begin by opening up the page--front.html.twig template in our favorite editor and add the following markup to the very top of our page:

New markup

{% extends 'themes/octo/templates/page.html...
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