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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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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

Creating our interior page template


Drupal provides us with multiple ways to address templating a specific page. As we saw when we created our homepage, we can take advantage of Twig debugging to identify which templates are being output. The same is true for our interior pages. If we navigate to the About Us page and inspect the markup we can identify that Drupal is using the default page.html.twig template, as shown in the following image:

This template is clearly different than the page--front.html.twig template we created earlier, which explains why some of our page elements are missing. However, this is a good example of how we can use different Twig templates to control the markup.

Begin by following these steps:

  1. Navigate to the core/modules/system/templates folder and copy page.html.twig.

  2. Place the copy within our themes/octo/templates folder.

Make sure to clear Drupal's cache and refresh the About Us page. If we inspect the page again, we will note that our new template is being used...

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