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Mastering Drupal 8

You're reading from   Mastering Drupal 8 An advanced guide to building and maintaining Drupal websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885976
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chaz Chumley Chaz Chumley
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William Hurley William Hurley
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Sean Montague Sean Montague
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Preface 1. Developer Workflow FREE CHAPTER 2. Site Configuration 3. Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions 4. Content Types, Taxonomy, and Comment Types 5. Working with Blocks 6. Content Authoring, HTML5, and Media 7. Understanding Views 8. Theming Essentials 9. Working with Twig 10. Extending Drupal 11. Working with Forms and the Form API 12. RESTful Services 13. Multilingual Capabilities 14. Configuration Management 15. Site Migration 16. Debugging and Profiling

Block template


Each block that Drupal displays also has a block.html.twig template that it uses. We can override this template like we did with the Node template. All we need to do is identify the path and the filename suggestion to use.

Begin by inspecting the Headline label and identifying which template is being used:

Based on the Twig comments, we know the exact location of the Twig template and that Drupal is using the base block.html.twig template. With this information, we can override the template by following these steps:

  1. Copy the block.html.twig template from /core/themes/classy/templates/block/block.html.twig.
  2. Paste the copy into /themes/twiggy/templates.
  3. Rename block.html.twig to block--myjumbotron.html.twig.

Make sure to clear Drupal's cache and then refresh our page within the browser. Drupal is now using our copy of the template and we can proceed by modifying the markup as needed.

Open block--myjumbotron.html.twig and replace the markup with the following:

{{ content.field_headline...
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