[support] Drupal 7/Zen Theme Question

[Hakan]

Thank you Michael, that was helpful. In other words, the block ID is
generated programmatically by the block module? It would seem to me
that the footer message would use a more "recognizable" id than
"block-block-1" - as in my case - being IDed as the first block
entered/saved...

On Tue, 01 May 2012 13:45:08 -0700, Michael Prasuhn wrote:

>That ID is generated by the ID of the block in the database. If you go
>to example.com/admin/structure/block you'll see a list of blocks, and if
>you find the block that represents your footer and click on the
>configure link next to it, you'll see the block ID in the URL. In your
>case it would look something like:
>
>admin/structure/block/manage/block/1/configure
>
>A common format for CSS IDs for blocks is block-MODULENAME-ID. So in
>this case your block is provided by the block module (which handles the
>blocks that you can edit on the blocks page) and it's ID is 1.
>
>-Mike
>
>Hakan wrote:
>> In Drupal 7, I have created a subtheme from Zen which I am - whenever I
>> have some spare time - slowly developing into the custom theme for one
>> of my websites. Obviously this is a learning experience although I do
>> have a little experience from Drupal 6 several years back.
>> 
>> I have installed Firebug under Firefox and am using it to look at
>> various properties of one of the pages I am theming. My footer message
>> shows an id of "block-block-1" - which I have then used to assign the
>> appropriate CSS property values. I would, however, like to understand
>> where/how that id is generated and did a grep of the entire website
>> looking for that particular id. I only found it in the Zen theme and in
>> my derived subtheme, not in any particular Drupal file.
>> 
>> Could someone who knows Drupal 7 better tell me where that particular
>> id is generated for the footer message?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
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