About Drupal documentation

The Drupal handbooks are the primary documentation reference sources for how to use Drupal. They are maintained by the Documentation team. The handbooks use the book module, which enables collaborative editing and provides navigation elements.

There is a PDF available of the Getting Started v5

Off-line copies of any the five documentation handbooks can be created as follows:

1. From the handbooks tab, go to the top level page of one of the five handbooks: About Drupal, Getting Started, Customization - Tutorials, Snippets and HowTo, Developing for Drupal, or Theme Developers' Guide.
2. Click "Printer-friendly version" link at the bottom of the page. This link is at the bottom of the main content area of book pages, above any comments that may have been added.
3. If you know the node number of the book page, then it has a path in the form "node/14279", and you can substitute "book/export/html/14279" to get the printer-friendly version.
4. The current page and its sub-pages will be output in a clean format with no headers, footers, or side blocks.
5. Comments to book pages are not included in the printer-friendly copies.
6. Save the content for off-line use, either by printing, by saving as a .pdf, or saving as html.
7. This works for sub-sections of a book as well, but there is no way to output all five books at once.

Handbook conventions:

Drupal version applicability for each page should be designated by the page author. These tags are displayed on the right immediately under the title.

Paths: Instructions such as (administer > user management > access control) are not URLs, but refer to the navigation steps to get to a particular page. In this example, select 'administer' from the navigation menu, then 'user management' under 'administer,' then 'users' under that. Variations include the absence of the parenthesis, lack of italic type face, and use of ">>" or "»" instead of ">." On the other hand, a reference to 'admin/access' is a URL reference.