By oishiitoriniku on

Hello everyone!

I'm working with a small group of people to develop a news web site in Drupal. I've created page-front.tpl.php so that the front page will look different from the other inside story pages (page.tpl.php). I was wondering if there is a way to link page-front.tpl.php to a different css stylesheet than the default style.css.

Can anyone advise on how I'd do this?

Thanks in advance!

- Darin

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matkeane’s picture

matkeane commented

Depending on how different your front page layout is from the rest of the site, you could just add a class="front" to your body tag and use that to create CSS style rules that only affect that page.

If you want to avoid loading a lot of CSS rules that aren't needed for the front page, you can unset a CSS file from within your theme's template.php file and define another CSS file to load in place. Can't find an example of the code off-hand, but I'm pretty sure that the Hunchbaque theme is one that does this.

notarealperson’s picture

notarealperson commented

I would go with the former suggestion if I were you - add a new #front body class and then put the new rules under #front.

matkeane’s picture

matkeane commented

Yeah, I generally end up going that route as, most of the time, there are a lot of shared styles between the front page and the rest of the site. Also, that way, I can turn on CSS aggregation and serve everything up in one hit. I've never tried measuring the performance gain of that versus a trimmed down CSS file specific to the front-page.

For some reason though - maybe because I might end up with several pages with the same body class - I tend to go with a .class, rather than an #id but, since a page can only have one body, I guess that's just splitting hairs!

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totocol commented

Hi,

Do I need to define the page-front.tpl.php somewhere for it to be found before finding page.tpl.php? (I'm a newbie so not sure about these details). I have just created a new file identical page.tpl.php but called page-front.tpl.php and then erased all the sections of code that were referring to the content section. Am I missing something?

thanks a lot

Raul
raulcaceres.me

matkeane’s picture

matkeane commented

Nope, that's it - duplicate the page.tpl.php, rename to page-front.tpl.php, then modify as desired. Drupal should automatically find the new template - unless you're using a theme which defines which template file to use in its template.php code, and I don't think the base themes do this.

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totocol commented

Thanks,

How could I check if the template.php code defines that?. Any idea of what the code could look like?. It does not seem to read that template first.

Thanks again

Raul
raulcaceres.me

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totocol commented

Just checking if someone can provide some input on this?

Thanks

Raul
raulcaceres.me

matkeane’s picture

matkeane commented

Hi,

I can't find an example of a theme doing this right now, but this handbook page shows how you can modify the tpl.php template file to use in the theme's template.php code: http://drupal.org/node/249726

But, unless you theme is doing something like that, you should just be able to rename page.tpl.php to page-front.tpl.php and Drupal will find it.

One gotcha a colleague experienced was an extra file extension when Windows helpfully(?) hid recognized file extensions. When the file was renamed, it ended up as 'page-front.tpl.php.php' and Drupal ignored it.