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Drupal 5 Themes

You're reading from   Drupal 5 Themes Create a new theme for your Drupal website with a clean layout and powerful CSS styling

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2007
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847191823
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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A Guide to Drupal Style Sheets


A typical Drupal installation will include twenty style sheets, and may also include a certain number of embedded styles. If you have installed additional extensions, you may well find that they come with their own style sheets, pushing the count up even higher.

The Drupal approach to style sheets may initially appear to be overkill in the extreme, or at the very least a rather literal application of modularization, but there is a method behind this madness. The use of multiple style sheets not only makes it easier for the individual module maintainers of the Drupal development team, but also helps you find what you need more quickly than having to deal with one or two massive files. The net result is an approach that is actually quite effective—once you get past the initial shock of discovering twenty-odd style sheets lurking in your system!

In order to reduce the potential threats of conflicting style sheets and absurd loading times, Drupal provides a CSS...

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