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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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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

Sub-theming

In Drupal, sub-theming refers to the process of creating a new theme that inherits and extends the functionality of an existing base theme. It allows you to customize the appearance and behavior of your Drupal site without modifying the base theme directly. Sub-theming is a powerful technique that enables you to build unique designs while benefiting from the updates and improvements made to the base theme.

The inheritance chain follows a linear path, and each theme can only have one parent theme. The visible markup presented to the user on a page is the outcome of how each theme in this chain modifies the markup received from the preceding theme, with the active theme having the ultimate authority in determining the final markup.

Imagine, for example, that our Alps Trips company became successful, and we opened a French office to manage tours in the French Alps. We want a site with the same content types and configuration but with some differences on the frontend...

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