Struggling to Understand How .css Files Determine Content

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jacobson's picture

The handbook page at http://drupal.org/node/819168 instructs that .css files determine the content delivered to an end user device / browser. I am struggling to understand how this is true. I would appreciate an explanation of this concept.

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Check this out

JSCSJSCS's picture

I wrote this after having the same struggle. Perhaps it will help.

http://mydrupaljourney.com/articles/2011/06/30/omega-starterkit-css-files

James Sinkiewicz
Drupal Site Builder and Generalist
http://MyDrupalJourney.com

Thank You

jacobson's picture

Much appreciated.

HAJ

Thanks

corinroyal's picture

I've been stymied getting to know omega because of the CSS weighting thing meaning all the changes I made were ignored. This advice should help.

LESS / Alpha / Omega / Subtheme complexity.

dshumaker's picture

I've been lured in by LESS.app and Omega. I'd love to design a responsive fluid grid much like (http://semantic.gs/ ) but am confused on if I should modify the aplha css files or the omega css files or my subthemes css files and which I should turn into (convert) to LESS files.

Any help or suggestions appreciated.
-d

Lots of info is already in

drew reece's picture

Lots of info is already in this group…
http://groups.drupal.org/node/206148 - Omega theme with Compass and SASS - what are the best practices?

It depends on if you are using a compiler locally or doing it server side via Sassy module etc.

You should leave the alpha & omega css files assuming they are in the base theme, just override styles in the subtheme as needed. It would probably be a good idea to start reading the omega handbook
http://drupal.org/node/819164 to get an idea of how the css layers stack & inherit.

You can just replace the subtheme/css/global.css with a subtheme/less/global.less & get it to compile into the css file.

This may help…

Omega Framework

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