Submitted by Nik on
I sometimes run into people on the Drupal IRC channels that have a theming issue they just can’t fathom – dysfunctional CSS. Some poor guy has overridden a core CSS class, but his styles just don’t work. I’ve been there myself before and I know it can be very frustrating.
Rather than showering your CSS with !important tags, here is an alternative – remove the offending style file altogether. You can then copy the style information into your own theme, remove any bits that you don’t want and alter it as you see fit.
Let’s see how we get rid of those sites/default/files and regain control of our CSS. Put some code similar to this in the “page” section of your template.php file’s _phptemplate_variables function (see this example). />
<?php
// get all the current css information into an array
$css = drupal_add_css();
// copy stuff you want to keep from these sites/default/files into your theme's style.css
// or maybe make a separate file for that and @import it into that file
// now we can ditch unwanted core css sites/default/files from the array and they won't be included
unset($css['all']['module']['modules/user/user.css']);
unset($css['all']['module']['modules/node/node.css']);
// and now, removing the css sites/default/files of some contributed modules
// I'm putting them into an array to save space and code repetition
$rm[] = drupal_get_path('module','content').'/content.css';
$rm[] = drupal_get_path('module','devel').'/devel.css';
$rm[] = drupal_get_path('module','gotcha').'/gotcha.css';
// now we can remove the contribs from the array
foreach ($rm as $key => $value) {
unset($css['all']['module'][$value]);
}
// now place the remaining css sites/default/files back into the template variable for rendering
$vars['styles'] = drupal_get_css($css);
?>
You should now be able to see that the CSS sites/default/files have disappeared from the head of your document – a pretty drastic step, but it’s pretty much guaranteed…!
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