Ticket #1380 (new enhancement) — at Version 2
Making customizing CSS easier
| Reported by: | zephod | Owned by: | zephod |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | ckan-sprint-2011-11-07 |
| Component: | ckan | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | dread | Repository: | ckan |
| Theme: | none |
Description (last modified by rgrp) (diff)
While integrating the new theme and making a large number of UX tweaks, I've allowed the CSS file to bloat out of control with some very specific rules and subtle hacks, as well as a couple of clearfix <div> objects in the markup which isn't really good practice.
In general we want a logical CSS structure which is as easy to modify as possible. You should not find yourself being overwritten by highly specific rules all the time!
Actions
- Clean up css
- Add a config option ckan.template_head_end - arbitrary string inserted at end of <head> tag so you can add custom css etc (may also want to update theming docs to reflect possibility of using this)
Background
David Read sent me the following as background:
- basic theming is described here: http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/theming.html
Deep customisation of the templates is done by creating an extension, with this as a template: https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckanext-exampletheme/overview
That's what Augusto and the Brazilians have done http://alpha.dados.gov.br/dados/ and their code is here: hg clone http://dev.dados.gov.br/codigo/dev/tema-ckan <snip> Another thing of interest was us becoming compatible with Wordpress themes last December. Richard Pope worked with Rufus on this. I believe the base theme is 'twentyten' and I'm guessing that one would swap that css file with another to change theme, but I don't know. I don't know if this feature has been dropped since then. http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/2010-December/000073.html
Dave
