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Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238098
Pages 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Luca Lusso Luca Lusso
Profile icon Luca Lusso

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1 – Styling Drupal
2. Chapter 1: Setting up a Local Environment 3. Chapter 2: Setting a New Theme and Build Process 4. Chapter 3: How Drupal Renders an HTML Page 5. Chapter 4: Mapping the Design to Drupal Components 6. Chapter 5: Styling the Header and the Footer 7. Chapter 6: Styling the Content 8. Chapter 7: Styling Forms 9. Chapter 8: Styling Views 10. Chapter 9: Styling Blocks 11. Chapter 10: Styling the Maintenance, Taxonomy, Search Results, and 403/404 Pages 12. Part 2 – Advanced Topics
13. Chapter 11: Single Directory Components 14. Chapter 12: Creating Custom Twig Functions and Filters 15. Chapter 13: Making a Theme Configurable 16. Chapter 14: Improving Performance and Accessibility 17. Part 3 – Decoupled Architectures
18. Chapter 15: Building a Decoupled Frontend 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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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