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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Development Cookbook Harness the power of Drupal 8 with this practical recipe-based guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788290401
Length 430 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Up and Running with Drupal 8 FREE CHAPTER 2. The Content Authoring Experience 3. Displaying Content through Views 4. Extending Drupal 5. Frontend for the Win 6. Creating Forms with the Form API 7. Plug and Play with Plugins 8. Multilingual and Internationalization 9. Configuration Management - Deploying in Drupal 8 10. The Entity API 11. Off the Drupalicon Island 12. Web Services 13. The Drupal CLI

Implementing and using a third-party CSS library

Drupal provides many things. However, one thing that it does not provide is any kind of CSS component library. In the Using the new asset management system recipe of Chapter 5, Frontend for the Win, we added FontAwesome as a library. CSS frameworks implement robust user interface design components, and they can be quite large if you use a compiled version with everything bundled. The asset management system can be used to define each component as its own library to only deliver the exact files required for a strong frontend performance.

In this recipe, we will implement the Semantic UI framework, using the CSS-only distribution, which provides each individual component's CSS file. We will register the form, button, label, and input components as libraries. Our custom theme will then alter the Drupal elements for buttons, labels...

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