[support] Adding to the CSS of a theme?

[Tony Yarusso]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> 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?
>
>
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>
> roy at panix.com
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One thing you might try is putting an @import to ../style.css as the first
line in your sheet.  I'd think this would be done automatically as the
default behavior, but perhaps not (I don't know).

-- 
Tony Yarusso
http://tonyyarusso.com/
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