I am using the Minimal-Mistakes gem-installed theme and am using the neon skin with it. I really like what it offers out of the box but I do want to change the footer-background-color. What I have done so far in attempt to override the styles is the following:
Copy over _sass/minimal-mistakes for all the style imports that it provides. I just copied everything in here based on the instructions here.
Like I said, I didn't want to change much at first, I wanted to at least see if it was working. So I made a main.scss in my assets/css folder in root.
It looks like this:
/* assets/css/main.scss */
$footer-background-color: #ff0000; // Set the footer background color here
@import "minimal-mistakes/skins/{{ site.minimal_mistakes_skin | default: 'default' }}"; // skin
@import "minimal-mistakes"; // main partials
Here I put the style I want to override before the import statements, like it says in the MM docs.
I also see this in my jekyll logs where it is hitting the main.scss file but is not doing anything:
/home/malexander15/malexander15.github.io/assets/css/main.scss 4:9 root stylesheet
But I'm not entirely sure that means anything.
I didn't see anything else I was supposed to do after this in the docs. What exactly am I missing?
Also, this post is very very close to the same problem. The best answer on this post is very elaborate and verbose but I am confused by what they did for the actual solution and how to apply it in my situation.
I tried changing the background color of the footer for the minimal-mistakes theme, with the neon skin applied, from background-color: #18020a; to ff0000. Nothing appeared to change.
If you look at the original main.scss, it starts with this front matter:
---
# Only the main Sass file needs front matter (the dashes are enough)
search: false
---
This could be phrased stronger: it must have front matter.
Even if you don't set anything in front matter, you still have to have it, or else Jekyll just copies the file as-is instead of processing it (to CSS, in this case).
This is mentioned in the Jekyll docs, under Assets:
Jekyll provides built-in support for Sass and can work with CoffeeScript via a Ruby gem. In order to use them, you must first create a file with the proper extension name (one of
.sass,.scss, or.coffee) and start the file with two lines of triple dashes, like this:--- --- // start content .my-definition font-size: 1.2em