CSS

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets are used to control the way web pages look. By changing a CSS definition, the change is made on every Moodle webpage that uses that definition.

CSS files are located in the theme folder being used by Moodle. The normal Moodle practice is to have 3 main CSS files: styles_color, styles_layout, styles_fonts. When a CSS definition is not found in a theme CSS file, the CSS files located in the standard theme serves as the default.

There may also be CSS files for Internet Explorer, Mozilla or other internet browsers.

Basic Moodle page parts

A web page is broken up into pieces or elements. Not every page contains the same parts.

These parts or elements include: core, forms, header, footer,admin, blocks, blog, calendar, course, doc, grades, login, message, notes, mymoodle, question, tabs, tags, user and many of the modules.

Basic CSS files

• CSS styles_ layout.css contains the layout specifications for various page elements.

• CSS styles_color.css contains the colors used in the page elements.

• CSS styles_fonts.css defines the fonts used in the page elements.

See Also

In other MoodleDoc versions, the CSS info has been moved to devDocs on CSS

In this documentation you can find more information in the links below:

• CSS FAQ
• CSS styles moz.css
• Themes
• Wikipedia Cascading Style Sheets
• W3schools