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Theming

Since version 3.0.0, GitBook can be easily themed. Books are using by default the theme-default.

Caution

: Custom theming can block some plugins from working correctly.

Structure of a theme

A theme is a plugin containing templates and assets. All the templates are optionnal, since theme are always extending the default theme.

Folder Description
_layouts Main folder containing all the templates
_layouts/website/page.html Template for a normal page
_layouts/ebook/page.html Template for a normal page during ebook generation (PDF< ePub, Mobi)

Extend/Customize theme in a book

Authors can extend the templates of a theme directly from the book source (without creating an external theme). Templates will be resolved in the _layouts folder of the book first, then in

Publish a theme

Themes are published as plugins (see related docs) with a theme- prefix. For example the theme awesome will be loaded from the theme-awesome plugin, and then from the gitbook-plugin-theme-awesome NPM package.