I'm trying to get the Stark theme (Druplal 7.26) to work (hours and hours on it). I tried both the bartik theme and the seven theme - but too many parts on it that I would have to change.
So far I have it set up as just header, content and footer (what I wanted - no sidebars at all).
I made a sub-theme, copied the info file, page.tp.php, did all that (changed the appropriate names), followed the instructions, etc. It's maybe 70% finished.
However, somewhere in the drupal files it mentions that the stark theme is prone to "breaking" (maybe an understatement?).

Seems next to impossible to control heights of various objects (say an a small image, a piece of text, etc.) I place in the footer or header.
I've tried all sorts of things; div, span, ems, pixels, clear-hack, you name it.

Same things goes for an Article vs. a Basic Page, and the Admin view is different too.

Is it just Stark?

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VM’s picture

However, somewhere in the drupal files it mentions that the stark theme is prone to "breaking" (maybe an understatement?).

That's the second time you've stated the above. The first time was in a very similar thread that you posted. I can't find verbiage to that effect in any drupal file. Care to enlighten?

Stark is HTML and CSS as are all themes in Drupal. However, stark is considered a minimal theme. I've never had any trouble with the issues you mention. I highly suggest adding a link to the site so that the HTML and CSS can be inspected.

Admin view is different too

Different from what? stark isn't an admin theme. Seven is the admin theme.

liguodrup’s picture

Hi,
Thanks,
OK, that explains one thing, Admin is Seven, outside of that it's Stark. So I'm looking at it in 2 different themes.
'stark theme is prone to "breaking"" I found in a 'read me' file in the Stark files, the theme folder I think. I just wanted to know if the general height problem is peculiar to Stark.

VM’s picture

the following quoted from the stark theme readme.txt

ABOUT STARK
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The Stark theme is provided for demonstration purposes; it uses Drupal's default HTML markup and CSS styles. It can be used as a troubleshooting tool to determine whether module-related CSS and JavaScript are interfering with a more complex theme, and can be used by designers interested in studying Drupal's default markup without the interference of changes commonly made by more complex
themes.

To avoid obscuring CSS added to the page by Drupal or a contrib module, the Stark theme itself has no styling, except just enough CSS to arrange the page in a traditional "Header, sidebars, content, and footer" layout. See the layout.css file for more information.

ABOUT DRUPAL THEMING
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To learn how to build your own custom theme and override Drupal's default code, see the Theming Guide: http://drupal.org/theme-guide

See the sites/all/themes/README.txt for more information on where to place your custom themes to ensure easy maintenance and upgrades.

As shown there isn't any statement about being prone to breaking.