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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

Editing the code to customize the style of elements


We have just edited the code to make changes to the word Enjoy. However, we do not have, or can't modify, that word because the code won't work. As we want to add the changes made to it, we need to edit the codes that we have copied so far. We will work with Sublime Text in order to edit the code. Therefore, run Sublime Text and follow these steps:

  1. Enter Sublime Text and paste the following code, which we have inspected and copied from our Moodle on-premises. The code reads as follows:

          .title { 
              padding: 3px 0 8px; 
              margin: 3px 8px 4px; 
              border-bottom: 1px solid #f1f1f1; 
              text-transform: uppercase; 
          } 
    
  2. Copy the code that we generated in http://enjoycss.com/code/ .

  3. Paste the code in Sublime Text. It is shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Edit the code so it reads as follows:

          .title { 
            -webkit-box-sizing: content-box; 
            -moz-box-sizing...