By tinaboots on

I am working on a new install of Drupal and have been working on some theme modifications. Since I am new to this system rather than try and create a new theme, I used the Bluemarine theme as a starting point. I created a new folder under the themes folder and copied the existing Bluemarine files into the new folder. So far so good. I have been able to get things close to the way that I want by working with the style sheet and the .xtmpl file.

The problem that I have run into is my columns which contain the blocks have a dark background, the center of the page has a white back ground. So the links that appear on my menu for example look exactly the way that I want them too, they are a light color against the dark background. However in the center of the page any links that appear are hardly visible. I am very determined however and went through and changed some code so that most of the links in the center of the page now have a class associated with them, so I can now control their appearance with my stylesheet. The one outstanding issue for me are the Tabs, I've looked and searched every where it seems and for the life of me, I can't seem to find where the code for the Tabs are defined. To take this issue to a higher level though, I can't seem to find where the xtemplate tags are defined in general, i.e. {tabs}, {help}, {message}, etc

Could someone please help and point me in the right direction? I would also be grateful for any general advice on working with the templates.

Thanks
Tina

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BobT-1’s picture

BobT-1 commented

I also modified the blue-marine theme, although I chose to keep the sidebars a light color, so I didn't have your problem.

Instead of adding classes to each <a> tag I would add the following to the stylesheet:
#main a {color:#666}

This will override <a> within the "body" portion of the page, unless you've change that in the template.

I did not modify the template file in any way, so I cannot advise you there. Sorry.

edit: Misspoke in first paragraph about what I kept a light color. All better. :)
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iraszl’s picture

iraszl commented

Not all styling can be found withing the bluemarine/style.css. Some generic styling is provided for your site by misc/drupal.css. Tabs are styled within drupal.css for example. You need to copy the part of the CSS code that styles the tabs and paste it into your bluemarine/style.css. Now you can modify this part of pasted code to your liking. It will override the drupal.css styling.

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tinaboots’s picture

tinaboots commented

Thanks so much for your help. I am still wondering though where is it that the tags are defined {tabs}, {content} etc.

Tina