I am trying to create my first subtheme for fusion and want to alter the sidebar and content width for certain node types.

Naturally I could alter the class of the grid in hook_preprocess_region, but that doesn't seem very elegant. Is there a possiblity to alter the width so that it will correctly be processed (taking theme settings into account)?

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ravis’s picture

ravis commented

For me editing CSS should be best way.

archnode’s picture

archnode commented

This would certainly be the easiest way, but I want to avoid altering css of the grid layout structure, which would essentially be necessary with this approach.

stephthegeek’s picture

stephthegeek commented
Status: Active » Fixed

There currently isn't the capability to do different sidebar widths on different pages, because they are handled by a single set of theme settings. This has come up a couple of times so we'll be looking at it at some point in the future, but it's roll-your-own in the meantime.

I did this quick'n'dirty once for a certain content type by doing a body.node-type .region-sidebar-first.grid-4 { width: XX; } kind of thing, which definitely works but depends on how much of this you're trying to do :)

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aquariumtap commented
Status: Fixed » Postponed

Setting to postponed, but would like to encourage feedback for a potential solution. A couple ideas that come to mind:

  • Currently there is a site-wide setting for the width of sidebar-first and sidebar-second. Now that regions are skinnable in Skinr 7.x-2.x, we could stop using theme settings and rely on Skinr instead. This would only be feasible if a default value could be set for a skin by the theme, and I believe that's not yet the case (could someone confirm?)
  • Leverage the Context module to override theme settings (eg: sidebar widths) as a reaction. We might include this as a Context plug-in in the upcoming Fusion Accelerator module.
stephthegeek’s picture

stephthegeek commented

Correct, no default values for skins, although it's something I've been pushing for. We may rethink the layout in a bigger way for Fusion 7.x-2.x, to address these kinds of deeper feature requests.

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thomaslucas commented

+1 subscribing, I need to change the last sidebar width to a little wider for a particular node type on my acquia slate in 6.20

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sheena_d commented
Version: 7.x-1.x-dev » 7.x-2.0-beta1
Status: Postponed » Fixed

Utilizing the patch in #1397838: Theme Settings form should derive the theme's name from a more reliable variable you can use the Delta module to set different sidebar widths based on criteria set via the Context module.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.