Sub-themes & inheritance
rcourtna - May 2, 2008 - 23:02
Hi all,
I've just started playing with sub-themes, and love them! I've run into a problem with stylesheet inheritance.
I define my style files in my parent theme's .info file like so:
name = Parent
description = It's so cool I wrote a poem about it.
version = VERSION
core = 6.x
engine = phptemplate
scripts[] = js/jquery.styleswitch.js
scripts[] = js/jquery.coda-slider.jsNow in my sub-theme, I'd like to omit js/jquery.coda-slider.js. The docs state that "If the file exists inside the sub-theme, then it will be used while omitting the file will prevent it from loading." (http://drupal.org/node/171209#styles-override-parent).
So I omit it in my sub-theme's .info file:
name = Sub
description =not so cool
version = VERSION
core = 6.x
engine = phptemplate
base theme = parent
scripts[] = js/jquery.styleswitch.jsThis results in my sub-theme still inheriting "js/jquery.coda-slider.js" from the parent theme. Not what I'd expect.
Is this a documentation bug, a code bug, or am I doing this wrong?
Thanks!
Ryan
It's not a documentation
It's not a documentation bug, the page to which you refer is about style sheets. According to the Sub-themes, their structure and inheritance page all JavaScripts defined in the parent theme are inherited in a sub-theme. Could you switch your parent and sub themes around?
Typo
You are right, my bad, i pasted the wrong lines. I see this inheritance problem with stylesheets (not javascript). So like:
name = Parent
description = It's so cool I wrote a poem about it.
version = VERSION
core = 6.x
engine = phptemplate
stylesheets[screen][] = css/style1.css
stylesheets[screen][] = css/style2.css
and
name = Sub
description =not so cool
version = VERSION
core = 6.x
engine = phptemplate
base theme = parent
stylesheets[screen][] = css/style2.css
and in this case, my sub-theme still inheriting "css/style1.css" from the parent theme. Not what I'd expect.
Thanks
There is an issue here:
There is an issue here: Unable to ignore base theme’s stylesheets
If you want to override
If you want to override "css/style1.css", you must redefine it from the sub-theme. You only redefined style2.css.
http://drupal.org/node/171209#styles-override-parent
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