Create a responsive mobile theme based on a default theme

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The topic describes how to create a responsive mobile-specific theme using the default Magento approaches.

Creating a mobile-specific theme

To use all the responsive approaches implemented in the Magento out-of-the-box Blank and Luma themes, your theme should declare one of them as a parent.

To create a mobile-specific theme:

Create a theme as described in Create a theme, having specified Blank or Luma as a parent theme.
Add a <theme_dir>/Magento_Theme/layout/default_head_blocks.xml layout file with the following content:

<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <head>
        <remove src="css/styles-l.css" />
    </head>
</page>

This will remove the desktop-specific files from your theme.

Create a responsive mobile theme based on a default theme

What’s in this topic

Creating a mobile-specific theme

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