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I am new to using concrete5, and I installed 8.5.1 full site to play around with it. I believe it is using the "Elemental" theme.

I noticed that when I added a new feature to the home page it didn't look like the existing features on the page?

On further investigation I found buried in the feature settings a custom class "feature-home-page", and some related settings in the theme.

Is there a way to know that these custom classes exist, and how they are defined? This really stumped me for a while, and I don't understand how it works.

Any info appreciated.
 
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Gondwana
You raise a very good point. Some of those custom classes make dramatic changes (eg, Autonav). Unfortunately, because they're theme-specific, it wouldn't be really appropriate to describe them in the block documentation (which should apply to all themes).

Most third-party themes will at least mention the custom classes that they have for each block (because it's a marketing point). However, the default theme (Elemental) has no such blurb.

When you know to look for them, you can just try them and see what happens. It's a shame they're not more obvious. Maybe the custom class could be an option in the block edit dialog...