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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. | 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 defination. | ||
CSS files are located in the [[theme]] folder being used by Moodle. The normal Moodle practice is to have 3 main CSS files: [[CSS styles_ color.css|styles_color]], [[CSS styles_layout.css|styles_layout]], [[CSS styles_fonts.css|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. | CSS files are located in the [[Theme|theme]] folder being used by Moodle. The normal Moodle practice is to have 3 main CSS files: [[CSS styles_ color.css|styles_color]], [[CSS styles_layout.css|styles_layout]], [[CSS styles_fonts.css|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. | There may also be CSS files for Internet Explorer, Mozilla or other internet browsers. | ||
Revision as of 19:28, 24 June 2008
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 defination.
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.
