December 2011
Intermediate to advanced
170 pages
3h 50m
English
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Step 5: Style Away
Now, if I go back to my home page and inspect the code Views just created, I’ll see what’s highlighted in Figure 13-14.
Figure 13-14. Hey now—we have a new class name to use in our Name header!
From there, it’s a simple matter to start putting this together in CSS. I work with LessCSS, a CSS framework that allows you to set variables for colors, fonts and other CSS attributes, and allows you to nest styles. You’ll learn more about that a bit later, in Chapter 15.
Here’s the .less code that I used to style the headings:[12]
/* 1.0 Colors & Fonts 1.1 Colors */ @gray: #8D8D7D; @dkgray: #4D4545; @mdgray: #666; @ltgray: #999; @palegray: #ccc; @red: #D32F00; @orange: #D17103; @cyan: #47A7BF; @dkcyan: #183b44; @green: #89A155; @gold: #eeb200; /* 2.0 Homepage Event Categories block */ #zone-content .homepage-events { .views-row { margin-bottom: 2em; text-align: center; /* center the image in the container */ overflow: hidden; /* hide the excess when it resizes */ } h3 a { font-size: .75em; display: block; padding: .5em 0; color: white; text-decoration: none; text-align: center; } .Bikes-Bees-and-More { background: @green; } .Butchery-Meat-amp-Fish { background: @red; } .Canning-amp-Preserving { background: @gold; } .Cooking-Baking-amp-Drinks { background: @dkcyan; } .Crafts { background: @cyan; } .DIY { background: @ltgray; } .Eco-Home-amp-Lifestyle { background: @dkgray; } ...Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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