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Luca Lusso
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Luca Lusso is a Drupal developer with more than 15 years experience, he started with Drupal 5 and PHP 5 in an era where deployments with FTP were still a thing. Since then, he worked as a consultant and contributed to build some of the biggest Drupal websites in Italy. Luca is also a teacher and he has taught Drupal to a lot of different teams, from universities to big system integrators. Luca is an open source lover and Drupal contributor, he maintains some popular modules like WebProfiler and Monolog. He's also a speaker in conferences like DrupalCon Europe and Drupal Developer Days. Lately, he has shifted his interest towards frontend performances. Luca holds a master's degree in Computer Science and he's an Acquia certified developer.
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Styling forms

Drupal uses a set of nested templates to render a form, starting from the template of the single input element (such as textfield or button) up to a form element that wraps together the input element and its label. Every form element is then managed by a template for the specific form ID, and finally, by a template that wraps everything by adding the <form> HTML tag.

Styling generic forms

To style a form we need to overwrite and customize some templates:

  1. First, we need to provide a custom template for all the render elements used in the form, and their labels:
    {{ include('@atoms/input.html.twig', {
      attributes: attributes,
      children: children,
    }) }}

This is the template that Drupal will use for every form input; put this code in the templates/form/input.html file of the alps_trips theme.

  1. Submit buttons are different from other input elements, and must use a different template:
    {{ include('@atoms/button...
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Luca Lusso is a Drupal developer with more than 15 years experience, he started with Drupal 5 and PHP 5 in an era where deployments with FTP were still a thing. Since then, he worked as a consultant and contributed to build some of the biggest Drupal websites in Italy. Luca is also a teacher and he has taught Drupal to a lot of different teams, from universities to big system integrators. Luca is an open source lover and Drupal contributor, he maintains some popular modules like WebProfiler and Monolog. He's also a speaker in conferences like DrupalCon Europe and Drupal Developer Days. Lately, he has shifted his interest towards frontend performances. Luca holds a master's degree in Computer Science and he's an Acquia certified developer.
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