Add CSS Style to Drupal Views
This week one of our OSTraining members was working with the Views module.
They were able to create views, but weren’t sure how to improve their design.
In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to apply CSS to your views so you can add both color and width.
#1: Adding CSS color to a column
Here is a very standard Drupal table that I’ve created. I’m going to add color to one of the columns, the Title:
- In editing the view, click on the field you want to edit:
- Click Style Settings and you’ll see options for adding HTML and CSS to the field:
We’re now going to customize the field’s CSS.
- Click “Create a CSS class”.
- Enter a new CSS class name. In this example, I used “views-title”:
Now, we’re going to go to our theme’s files to add the CSS.
Many themes use style.css for their main CSS, but your theme maybe different:
Inside the CSS file, add the CSS. Here we’re going to change the background color to pink:
- Save the CSS file.
- Clear the cache on your Drupal site via Configuration > Performance.
- Your CSS changes should now apply to the Title column:
#2: Adding width to Views columns
Let’s customize our table in a different way. Notice that one column, “Type” is very narrow. Let’s even out the width of our columns.
Inside each field, choose these settings:
- Click “Customize label HTML”.
- Click “CSS class”.
- Enter “views-table-width” into the CSS class box:
I repeated that process for all four fields in the view.
As before, we can now add the CSS we need to our theme. In this case, we’ll give each column a width of 25%:
Now all of the tables in our column should have an equal width:
Note: CSS does not apply to previews
One important thing to note is that your CSS will not apply inside the Views editing screen. This can sometimes make it a little harder to test changes accurately.
If you are working on changes to a live view, it may be worth making a clone of that view or working on a test site.
Thanks so much for this tutorial! If I want to add CSS to an entire row, can I list it in the style sheet and then post it under views>advanced settings>CSS class?
No, that’s for adding a css class to the whole view, inspect your elements, there should be a class for a row already, if not, override the view theme
hello, thanks for this informative article,i’m having a problem with the field, when i select the check box, it wont bring out the field to add my costume css and field wrapper. please help
Thanks very much this is very helpful for me.
If I want to edit the title of my field based on content type, what extra css would I need? So I’d like different titles to be colored differently, depending on content type. Thanks
This is cool “thanks”, This just solve, my long time stress.
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hi, thanks for article. i wonder how to show tables like views preview for real preview. i want to use views preview styles in created table but can not do it yet.
Hi Sir this cool stuff helps alot
Thank you very much for this wonderful explanation.
How to add css on blogger and theme? help please
Thanks for the article..
I have a doubt in views. I created a view of Uploaded files in that i want to add a class “colorbox-load” to the filename field of tag.
I can add to the main field like Filename but i want to add this in ‘a’ tag.
Any help would be appreciated .Thank you.
I don’t see styles.css in core/themes/bartik/css directory, but I notice that the CSS for controlling tables is in core/themes/bartik/css/components/table.css. So I assume that I shall edit table.css for the column ‘s background color and column’s width. Is it?
This was so helpful thank you so much.
Extremely useful! Thanks Steve