One thing I discovered recently in my college’s Drupal 8 site was that the node number CSS class that used to be applied to the <body> tag was missing. In Drupal 7 there was a unique node ID class and it looked sort of like this:
<body class=”html not-front not-logged-in no-sidebars page-node page-node- page-node-8471 node-type-article news-newsreleases context-news”>
Having this unique node number CSS class was useful for cases when specific pages needed custom styles applied.
By default, Drupal 8 seems to add no such class to pages. To get them back I added a snippet of code I found on a Drupal.org post. I found it was easiest to use:
/**
* Implements hook_preprocess_html().
*/
function themename_preprocess_html(&$variables) {
if ($node = \Drupal::request()->attributes->get(‘node’)) {
$variables[‘attributes’][‘class’][] = ‘page-node-‘ . $node->id();
}
}
in my theme’s sitetheme.theme file.
There is also a Node Class module that might help accomplish the same objective, adding unique CSS classes to a page. It’s a simple module that allows users to add custom CSS classes to any node through the node/add interface.
After adding the snippet of code above to my sitetheme.theme file I was able to target a faculty profile page that needed custom styling. Previously, without a unique CSS class, there no way to target that specific page.