By sime on

I wanted a complete list of classes and IDs in Drupal, so I did some analysis. You can find the results here:
http://urbits.com/_drupal/content/20060406/drupal_article01.php

Three reports:

  • Frequency of Classes in Drupal CSS
  • Frequency of IDs in Drupal CSS
  • Drupal CSS Classes and IDs in Context

These three reports are what I have been looking for to develop a clean style-sheet from scratch, but you may want to download the raw data for your own analysis. It's there if you want it.

Regards
Simon

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x, Drupal 4.7.x

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chiggsy’s picture

chiggsy commented

Nice work!

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peacetroupe commented

Simon, thanks for sharing your time and work. This makes a very interesting read.

FYI, there is a small glitch in the display of this row of data, on the 'classes report' page:

.block-search

It looks like a tag element's ending is missing, as this displays in the 'total' column (right after the class name):

class="total"2

HTH, and thanks again.

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sime
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commented

Fixed it up. Thanks peacetroupe

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sampelo commented

really useful
how did you generate it?
we should put it in the handbook

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sime
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commented

Thanks. MS Excel. I used to do a lot of data analysis, so I used some tricks.

I don't know about the handbook, maybe. I think data is getting out of date now, especially with core splitting up the css into separate files. Also the real interesting themes now are Garland/Zen which aren't represented here.

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shrill commented

is this list somewhere else as well, or is there a new version?

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sime
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commented

No update, it's getting pretty old but might be interesting still. Here's a link to the orginal files.
http://urbits.com/_drupal/content/20060406/drupal_article01.php

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sameer commented

http://urbits.com/_drupal/content/20060406/drupal_article01.php returns:

No input file specified.

I'm really interested in checking out the lists. Is there anywhere else where they can be viewed?

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sime
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commented

Sorry, the link shouldn't be broken for too long.

That said, this is really old analysis. The core css is now split on a per module basis, with some themes (all?) you can override specific stylesheets.