Hello all,
My ultimate goal is obtaining complete control of the styling of of a Drupal enabled web site.
The Drupal developers clearly went to great lengths to prevent the default look from ever being
altered. But I insist that our Drupal driven web sites represent us, not drupal.org. :)
To the point; can anyone assist me in obtaining complete styling control over the forms
generated by Drupal? The Drupal forms are quite adequate - they effectively create all the
necessary form fields. But they're so HTML 3.2. :)
So, what I'm hoping to achieve is being able to style all the elements (and add to as needed)
of all the forms that Drupal generates. Is there a global value I can hook, that will
trap all the form field elements so I can override the defaults, and inject classes as needed?
I have been struggling with this for some 11 days now. I've read so much now that my eyes
cross every time I open another article/forum topic/FAQ. Any direction/example here would be
greatly appreciated. Surely someone else has already done this. :)
Several years ago, I used mootools to write a form manipulation JavaScript to replace all
the form fields with images - radios, checkboxes, inputs, textareas, and buttons. I already
attempted to use CSS with Drupal, but couldn't quite get all the elements. I also tried my
mootools JavaScript. But it crashes into the jQuery. So the results were a bit unpredictable.
I tried the jQuery wrapper hack
. But all that did was slow down page rendering by
an additional 100% (took twice as long). So that clearly won't be an option. That
led me to trying to find an already made jQuery solution (my JavaScript skills are a bit rusty).
Which led me to jQuery combobox. But even with the demo, I wasn't able to get it to work. :(
I'm attempting to attach an image of what I want to achive (example output from my
mootools endevour) so you can see what I hope for, and let me know if it's possible.
Thank you very much for all your time and consideration in this matter.
--Charlie
OK I see the Drupal form isn't robust enough to permit image attachments with posts.
I can see that I'll need to look elsewhere if I need to use a forum on any of our web sites. :(
I hope my description above is complete enough. :)
Thanks again.
