Adding a snippet of css in a theme

[branchandroot]

So let us suppose that I'm making a theme for a layout that already uses the print_stylesheet function (a theme for Modish, in the event). Let us further suppose that I want to add a little bit of css to this theme without copying the whole inherited stylesheet just to change one line. Does anyone know of a good way to do this?

Comments

[mmmag]

If the theme is in use, couldn't you just use the customization wizard (custom css) to do that?

[branchandroot]

It's a theme I'm making, so part of the point is that this css scrap needs to be a default.

[ninetydegrees]

I'd use print Page::print_custom_head() { }

Edit: Hmm. Wait. I'm not sure if it's printed before or after print_stylesheet.

Edit2: It's printed before print_stylesheets so you may have to use !important. I don't know if that works with all browsers.

[branchandroot]

Ah, that has possibilities! Thank you; the only thing I'd come up with so far is setting custom_css which is really not at all what I need to do.

[afuna]

We're talking a bit in Bug 1611 about possibly splitting off the layout-specific bits in print_stylesheets() to a print_default_stylesheet block. The layout (or theme) could then override it or add new css, without it being too painful...

[branchandroot]

That would probably be good. Using custom_header worked charmingly, and it even let me make the whole thing an if statement so that it only outputs if my particular default background image is in use, so I am very happy with that. (One for the dreamscapes tips and tricks post.) But having an extra container that's a proper part of the stylesheet cascade would be very handy.