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Moodle Theme Development

By : Silvina Paola Hillar
Book Image

Moodle Theme Development

By: Silvina Paola Hillar

Overview of this book

Theming is one of the main features of Moodle, and it can be used to customize your online courses and make them look exactly how you want them to,according to your target audience. If you have been looking for a book that will help you develop Moodle themes that you are proud of, and that your students will enjoy, then this is the book for you. We start off by introducing Moodle 3 and explaining what it is, how it works, and what tools you might need to create a stunning Moodle theme. We then show you how to choose and change the pre-installed Moodle themes in detailed steps, and explain what Moodle themes are and how they work. Next, we show you how to change an existing theme and test the changes that you have made. You can not only plan the customization of theme, but also tailor it using advanced Moodle theming processes; this book is your one-stop guide to creating your own personalized Moodle 3 theme.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Moodle Theme Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Dedication
Preface

Locating the information of an image element


Before customizing the height and width of an element in Moodle on-premises with CSS, we need to locate the information of said element. It is not a very difficult task because we have already been working with similar information. Therefore, we need to enter Moodle on-premises's site and proceed with the following steps:

  1. Right-click on the logo and click on Inspect, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Information about the element appears, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. The following code appears, highlighted in the previous screenshot; it reads as follows:

          <a class="logo" href="//localhost" 
             id="yui_3_17_2_1_1468231690835_326"></a> 
    
  4. The following code defines the element and its style:

          #page-header 
          a.logo 
    
  5. The height is 158px and its width is 200px. The information is shown highlighted in the following screenshot: