[support] Adding to the CSS of a theme?

[Zohar Stolar]

Try http://drupal.org/project/sitecss


Roy Smith wrote:
> How do you augment the CSS style sheet of a theme?
>
> My first experiments with modifying a theme (I stated with sky) were 
> to just edit the style.css file in the theme directory.  That worked, 
> but is obviously not very maintainable.  I'm redoing my site and want 
> to be able to leave the original style.css virgin and just add my 
> stuff in another style sheet (which is, after all, the whole idea of CSS).
>
> For example, I want to add:
>
> img.keyline {
>   border: 1px solid black;
>   padding: 0;
> }
>
> to an existing theme.  Where do I put that?  I tried to follow the 
> directions in http://drupal.org/node/11774, namely where it says:
>
> "if you only want to alter the CSS of a theme, then just place a new 
> style.css file in a subdirectory of the theme: it will appear as a new 
> theme in Drupal."
>
> So, I made a themes/sky/my-sky directory, and put just that little bit 
> of CSS in a "style.css" file there.  Sure enough, "my-sky" showed up 
> as a style I could select in the /admin/build/themes page.  When I 
> selected it, however, it looked like what I put there *replaced* the 
> style.css from sky, rather than adding to it.
>
> What clue am I missing?
>
>
> --
>
> roy at panix.com <mailto:roy at panix.com>
>
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