[support] A shot in the dark - was Drupal themes

[Bruce Whealton]

I understand CSS and how they cascade.  It helps to know now, that the theme stylesheet is imported last, so it will override all that came before.  
   
  I was looking at Wireframe and it seems to work without styles, maybe.  Not that styles are bad.  I can use them and know how to do so.  The problem is trying to figure out (1) which style sheet is causing a particular color, font, etc. to appear at any one point and (2) how to change the display in one area without destroying how things look in a different area, like on a different page.  Like, when a black background is great against the photographs but when you use the same background on forms with a dark text font color then you can't see anything.  So then I'm trying to figure out how to change such and such text, specifically that text from among the large number of classes and ids.
  Bruce

Anton <anton.list at gmail.com> wrote:
  On 01/04/06, Bruce Whealton 
wrote:
>
> Please advise on what needs to be known or done when changing the look of a
> site. I've been playing with one theme and have a good reason to believe
> that I'm missing something. I started with fancy style and hoping that it
> wouldn't be that difficult as it appears that style.css is the file that
> needs to be editted.
> as the main style sheet.

You should only really need to edit the themes stylesheet. That
stylesheet can pretty much override any other styles in Drupal (it is
imported last).

You don't mention (or at least I didn't see it mentioned) how much you
know about CSS. You'll need to have a fairly good understanding of
selectors and the 'cascade' or inheritance in stylesheets.

The one thing I absolutely recommend as a must have is using Firefox
and its Web Developer extension to dig into the page and highlight
blocks ids classes etc etc. You can even use it to try altering the
CSS on the fly to see whether or not your are changing the right bits.

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Cheers
Anton
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