hextra_mirror/exampleSite/content/docs/advanced/customization.md

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Customizing Hextra	Customization

Hextra offers some default customization options in the hugo.yaml config file to configure the theme. This page describes the available options and how to customize the theme further.

Custom CSS

To add custom CSS, we need to create a file assets/css/custom.css in our site. Hextra will automatically load this file.

Font Family

The font family of the content can be customized using:

.content {
  font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
}

Inline Code Element

The color of text mixed with other text can customized with:

.content code:not(.code-block code) {
  color: #c97c2e;
}

Primary Color

The primary color of the theme can be customized by setting the --primary-hue, --primary-saturation and --primary-lightness variables:

:root {
  --primary-hue: 100deg;
  --primary-saturation: 90%;
  --primary-lightness: 50%;
}

Further Theme Customization

The theme can be further customized by overriding the default styles. An example for customizing the footer element:

.hextra-footer {
  /* Styles will be applied to the footer element */
}

.hextra-footer:is(html[class~="dark"] *) {
  /* Styles will be applied to the footer element in dark mode */
}

The following classes can be used to customize various parts of the theme.

General

• hextra-scrollbar - The scrollbar element
• content - Page content container

Shortcodes

Badge

• hextra-badge - The badge element

Card

• hextra-card - The badge element
• hextra-card-image - The card image element
• hextra-card-icon - The card icon element
• hextra-card-subtitle - The card subtitle element

Cards

• hextra-cards - The cards grid container

Navbar

• nav-container - The navbar container
• nav-container-blur - The navbar container in blur element
• hamburger-menu - The hamburger menu button

Footer

• hextra-footer - The footer element

Search

• search-wrapper - The search wrapper container
• search-input - The search input element
• search-results - The search results list container

Table of Contents

• hextra-toc - The table of contents container

Sidebar

• mobile-menu-overlay - The overlay element for the mobile menu
• sidebar-container - The sidebar container
• sidebar-active-item - The active item in the sidebar

Language Switcher

• language-switcher - The language switcher button
• language-options - The language options container

Theme Toggle

• theme-toggle - The theme toggle button

Cody Copy Button

• hextra-code-copy-btn-container - The code copy button container
• hextra-code-copy-btn - The code copy button

Breadcrumbs

No specific class is available for breadcrumbs.

Syntax Highlighting

List of available syntax highlighting themes are available at Chroma Styles Gallery. The stylesheet can be generated using the command:

hugo gen chromastyles --style=github

To override the default syntax highlighting theme, we can add the generated styles to the custom CSS file.

Custom Scripts

You may add custom scripts to the end of the head for every page by adding the following file:

layouts/partials/custom/head-end.html

Custom Layouts

The layouts of the theme can be overridden by creating a file with the same name in the layouts directory of your site. For example, to override the single.html layout for docs, create a file layouts/docs/single.html in your site.

For further information, refer to the Hugo Templates.

Further Customization

Didn't find what you were looking for? Feel free to open a discussion or make a contribution to the theme!