Styling lesson headings

Styling lesson headings

av James Pengelly -
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Hi Using Moodle 2.1, the main headings in the lesson pages (lesson title and page / topic title - the bits that appear in the navigation menu) are both styled as h2 class="main". Is there a way to apply different formatting to them or does anyone know where this content gets built so that (say) the topic title could be changed to h3 class="main"?
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Re: Styling lesson headings

av Chris Collman -
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Hi James,

 I assume you are talking about the"left menu" that can be turned on in the Lesson settings.   You know that every Theme will/can display this block different via its theme/mytheme/style/***.css files or  its parents found in theme/mytheme/config.php.   

I am not the code person and know just enough about CSS to be VERY dangerious.  (ie, it takes me a long time to do anything custom). 

I did look at mod/lesson/ renderer.php which is new in 2.0 as a standard file.   There is a bit there that says "Returns HTML to display a page to the user".    You are welcome to back track the php code from there smiler

I did note in the page source code  that the body had an id <body id="page-mod-lesson-view" ....>, so my CSS guess is you could write a subclass in your theme for just your lesson pages associated with that id.

It would seem to me by creating a CSS subclass in a custom theme (see Themes FAQ for some clues), you 1) would only impact the lesson module display,  and 2) you will not have to mess with the /mod/lesson code. Custom themes survive Moodle upgrades than having a list of display codes you placed in the core moodle code, IMO.

Hope this helps and someone who knows more about CSS and php can enlighten us further. 

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Re: Styling lesson headings

av James Pengelly -

Thanks Chris

I've attached a screenshot to try to make it a bit clearer. Both the elements are within page-view-lesson and within that they're both in the same div so unfortunately that doesn't help.

I want the lesson title (red circle) to be formatted differently to the page title (blue circle) but as they're both h2 class=main there doesn't seem an obvious way to do this.

I can't find a pagetype for "content" and searching the files for h2 or class=main hasn't thrown anything up.

If anyone can advise where this page content gets built it'd be much appreciated.

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Re: Styling lesson headings

av Tim Hunt -
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These headings will be output by calls to $OUTPUT->heading() (or possibly $renderer->heading()) in the lesson code. I guess one needs to be changed to h3, or we need to add some more class names to one.

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Re: Styling lesson headings

av Joseph Rézeau -
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Hi James,

In the Lesson activity, page titles are only displayed for pages of the "content page" type. Page titles of the "question" pages (multiple choice, etc.) are not displayed.

Anyway, a quick and dirty solution is as follows, if you are willing to hack your moodle core files.

Edit mod/lesson/pagetypes/branchtable.php file, line 113 to replace

$output .= $renderer->heading(format_string($this->properties->title));

with

$output .= '<h3>'.format_string($this->properties->title).'</h3>';

Joseph

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Re: Styling lesson headings

av Sebastien M. -
Hi Joseph,

Is there a way to display page titles for question pages? IT would be great if it could be inserted into the empty legend tag that is already rendered.

Regards,

Seb

(FYI: using Moodle branch 2.3.2)
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Re: Styling lesson headings

av Chris Collman -
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Glad you did the screen shot.   Tim and Joseph know the code.  

No place to slip in some CSS code tweaks, unless you want the entire site changed. Chris