[support] Adding to the CSS of a theme?

[Neil: esl-lounge.com]

I've just tried this and it doesn't seem to work. Took a chunk out of my 
theme's main style.css and placed it in a new style.css which was in my 
theme's sub-folder and all those customizations disappear from the site 
completely.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Raney" <dennis at wildernesslibrary.com>
To: <support at drupal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 4:26 AM
Subject: Re: [support] Adding to the CSS of a theme?


> Roy,
>
> If you're just using CSS to change a theme, you could use this method
> without changing the original theme:
>
> "You can also make CSS-only themes by making a subdirectory in any
> theme directory and placing a new style.css file in it. Drupal will 
> combine
> the new stylesheet with the template it belongs in, and make it available 
> as
> a new theme. This is how the Minelli and Marvin themes work."
>
> Complete documentation is located here:  http://drupal.org/node/11774
>
> Sincerely,
> Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Smith [mailto:roy at panix.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 7:02 PM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [support] Adding to the CSS of a theme?
>
> On Feb 25, 2008, at 7:02 PM, John Fletcher wrote:
>
>> Roy,
>>
>> Why don't you just copy a theme folder into sites/all/themes and
>> give it a
>> new name and then edit the css files there?
>
> I'd really like to keep my mods distinct from the base.  That way,
> when a new version of the theme is released (I noticed a few changes
> in sky from 5.3 to 5.7), it's easy to pick up the new base without
> touching my local additions.
>
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> roy at panix.com
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