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Mastering Drupal 8

You're reading from   Mastering Drupal 8 An advanced guide to building and maintaining Drupal websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885976
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chaz Chumley Chaz Chumley
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Preface 1. Developer Workflow FREE CHAPTER 2. Site Configuration 3. Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions 4. Content Types, Taxonomy, and Comment Types 5. Working with Blocks 6. Content Authoring, HTML5, and Media 7. Understanding Views 8. Theming Essentials 9. Working with Twig 10. Extending Drupal 11. Working with Forms and the Form API 12. RESTful Services 13. Multilingual Capabilities 14. Configuration Management 15. Site Migration 16. Debugging and Profiling

Creating our Jumbotron Block


The Jumbotron Block consists of three fields: Heading, Summary, and Button. We will take advantage of custom block types to create our new block, which we can then use to create a Twig template that contains the proper markup for Bootstrap to display the content as shown previously.

Step one - Creating a custom block

Navigate to /admin/structure/block/block-content/types and perform the following tasks:

  1. Select the Add custom block type button.
  2. Add a Label: Jumbotron.
  3. Select the Save button.
  4. Select the Manage fields button next to the Jumbotron Block Type.
  5. Add the following fields:
    • Headline: Text (plain)
    • Button: Link
  1. Select the Manage form display tab.
  2. Reorder the fields:
    1. Block description.
    2. Headline.
    3. Body.
    4. Button.
  1. Select the Manage display tab.
  2. Reorder the fields:
    1. Headline.
    2. Body button.

Step two - Adding a new Jumbotron block

Navigate to /admin/structure/block/block-content and perform the following tasks:

  1. Select the Add custom block button.
  2. Select Jumbotron.
  3. Add a Block description...
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