Can we edit Global Component

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Can we edit Global Component, I have a Navbar I want to add some spacing and desings.

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Hey @tinnyRocks,

editing global modules and partials is definetely possible. The “how” always depends on your theme.

In general:

  • All files are located in the Design-Manager
  • If you’re using a default theme(from the @hubspot folder) or a marketplace and haven’t created a child-theme, you’ll need to create one to be able to edit the theme files.
  • A theme structure depends on the developer(s) who created it. The most common folder structure contains a CSS folder with all the CSS files of the theme, a modules folder with all the theme specific modules(which also can contain CSS), a template folder which contains all templates, a JS folder for the JavaScript files and maybe something like an img folder for the theme images like preview images of the theme
  • Furthermore there are a few very crucial files. For instance something like the base.html and the theme-overrides.css (both files might be named different). If something goes wrong with those files, you can be almost 100% sure that it will affect all of your pages - so be careful.

Creating a child-theme is something that is recommended as one of the very first steps while starting with a theme since redoing it afterwards can result in major changes to all of your pages.

If you haven’t created a child-theme already, the procedure is quite easy.

  1. Locate your theme in the Design-Manager
  2. Right-click on it
  3. Select “Create child-theme”
  4. Give it a proper name(I recommend to write in lowercase and replace spaces with “-” or “_”)
  5. Once the child-theme is created, clone the required files from the parent-theme to it
  6. To clone a file from the parent-theme to the child one, simply right click it and select “clone to child-theme” - select the one you’ve created
  7. Add your changes to the files in the child-theme files
  8. If you already created some pages, you will need to edit all of them and move them to the child-theme

Best,

Anton