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@wildernesslibrary.com To: support@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@panix.com] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 7:02 PM To: support@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@panix.com
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