A stylesheet to be used if you want to create your own theme for a Google form. The stylesheet is written with LESS so that it is easy to customize.
*Note that this styling sheet does not work with the newest version of google forms. To enable this styling sheet, the google forms needs to be revered to the old version which can be done by clicking on the bottom right hand corner quetion mark and reverting back to the old version. Demo form in action
As a starting point I basically just copied the stylesheet from the default Google form page. Then I took all the colors and placed them into variables. The stylesheet needs to be stripped of things not necessary.
I do not want to add any extra markup to the pages. The idea hear is to just copy the form mark that Google gives you and then just add a stylesheet that will make it themed.
Think themes for bootstrap. Markup stays, stylesheets change.
But right now I am just going to try and normalize the current stylsheet into something as default as possible so that I can then create a my-theme-name.css file that contains all the variables to do the styling. I am currently only using the variables in LESS but eventually I will use more of the feaures to get everything nice and themeable.
- Create a form as normal
- Click the view live form
- Copy everything inside the form tag including the form tag itself
- Create a new blank HTML file
- Create an empty div with a
containerclass - Paste all the form markup inside there
- Link the style.css stylsheet
- Test the form and check the response in Google drive
Something relatively new to Google drive is the ability to host static HTML pages.
- Create a public shared folder
- Upload all your static html files
- Open the
index.htmlfile in drive and click the preview button - Copy the link to the page it sends you too
- Share that link with whoever because you are done!
[DEPRECATED] This is how the demo form is hosted.
just run node lesswatch css and it will watch all .less files and compile them for you. The lesswatch is written by idris.
Well then find and replace all @varName signs with $varName or just make the variables varName = value for Stylus.
I picked LESS because it has a lower barrier to entry than SASS or STYLUS. Even though I <3 Stylus the best.
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