By leenwebb on

Hey all,

One of my favorite things about Drupal is that the admin pages share styles with the rest of the site. I don't *want* to use a whole separate admin theme.

But I find that I keep running into issues setting default styles on my sites -- for example, yesterday I set a default bullet style and boy howdy did everything go crazy! Turns out unordered lists show up (disguised!) on practically every admin page. Who knew?! OK, well, you probably did.

Do you know if there's a CSS file floating around somewhere that has already spelled out all the "special" admin classes/IDs/etc? I was thinking that I could style my site like I would in my pre-Drupal days, then call this nice admin CSS file in order to overwrite all the appropriate specific styles so that the admin side of the site will function normally.

Thanks!

(Or! Is there a different way to go about solving this problem without resorting to a whole separate admin theme?)

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

pbarnett’s picture

pbarnett commented

The Zen theme has some useful reference material and CSS for overriding admin theming.

I build all my themes as Zen subthemes - it does so much of this grunt work for you.

And use Firefox and FireBug, if you don't already... invaluable tools.

Pete.

marcia1723’s picture

marcia1723 commented

I have created a Zen sub-theme, but I can't figure out how to modify pretty much anything.
All my files are uploaded to an FTP server which I can access, but I don't know what to look for or where.

Where, for example, do I find the page with the code that will let me replace the white background of ffffff with the dark brown 564940 that I want?
Where do I get to say "This is where I want my nav bar to be"?
I want the two column layout, etc...