Theme function

We had a project recently where we needed to add first and last classes to Drupals secondary local tasks. I was in a bit of a hurry so instead of trying to figure this out myself I Googled it and pretty quickly found this post on Drupal.org which seemed to fit the bill. Problem is the post doesn’t actually tell you how or where to use the snippet, which isn’t much good for those of you struggling with Drupal in the first place. Never fear, I’ll show you how to get those handy first/last classes into Drupals secondary local tasks.

In this short tutorial I’m going to show you how to set a unique class on your nodes based on taxonomy terms, which is something I’ve been asked about more than once or twice.

I’ve become a big fan of the fantastic Blocktheme module. Up until now I’ve followed the README instructions and either built blocktheme templates or just printed the $blocktheme variable in my block.tpl.php and block-xxx.tpl.php templates.

Thats all well and good, but in my current project I wanted to be able to theme blockthemes by region. The main reason for this is we are making just very minor changes to the block styles depending on the region and we see no point in creating additional blockthemes.

In the upcoming series of Genesis video tutorials I will be presenting a segment on how to build sliding door tabs for Drupal’s Primary links.

As you may know to get the full hover effect working in Microsoft’s venerable Internet Explorer web browser we need to wrap the anchor text in <span> tags, since IE does not support the :hover pseudo class on anything but an anchor, bless its little heart.

Now, the standard Drupal “fix” for this is to override the theme_links function. I’ll detail that here, but first I want to explore another idea I hit on recently - using jQuery to get the job done.