[support] Adding to the CSS of a theme?

[sander-martijn]

That makes sense if you still have the parent theme selected.  The 
subfolder with the style changes should now become your theme and you 
will have to select that theme as your active theme in order to see 
these changes.

So for example:
themes/chameleon/chameleon.theme
themes/chameleon/style.css
themes/chameleon/marvin/style.css

Chameleon is the actual fully developed theme.  But since there's a 
suubdirectory marvin with a css file in it there is an additional theme 
showing up in drupal called marvin.  If you select marvin as the active 
theme it will use chameleon but override the styles with anything in 
marvin/style.css.  But if you keep it on Chameleon then it won't read 
the marvin css file at all.

Neil: esl-lounge.com wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> roy at panix.com
>>
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