Joseph Rézeau

I've just noticed that, since moodle.org has been using version 1.8, when posting forum messages, the cursor is automatically positioned in the Subject field.

This is fine when you are posting a new discussion topic, since it makes it clear that you have to type a Subject for your message before proceeding to typing the text of your message.

However, when you are replying to a discussion topic, that automatic positioning is not a good thing. Normally you do not want to change the Subject of that discussion, you JUST want to type your Message text immediately. Before I noticed this new behavior (1.8 version), I did not understand why, after clicking in the HTML editor and starting to type the text of my reply message, after I had typed a few letters or words, the cusor unexpectedly moved to the Subject field and I was now typing the rest of my message in that field.

Have you noticed this? Does it bother you too? If so, you can vote for bug report MDL-8882.

Joseph

Julie > You could edit the 'forum.php' language file,

• CORRECT.- either by going in Language/Language editing in Site administration,
  
• NOT CORRECT.- or by directly modifying the language file in lang/en_utf8 (or whatever is the folder for the default language).

If you are using Moodle 1.7, the CORRECT way of editing language files is to go (as Admin) to Administration / language / language editing / Edit words or phrases / Click on forum.php / click on switch button (to make a copy of your local modified language file) and finally locate the words you want to change.
Directly modifying the language file is NOT RECOMMENDED.
Joseph

Martin > These things are all gone in 1.8...

At long last.

Joseph

Tim,

If all you want is your course names to be displayed in normal font-weight rather than bold, you don't have to hack the Moodle files in order to remove the <b> tags. You could simply add this CSS rule to one of your current theme's CSS files:

.courseboxcontent .info b {font-weight:normal}

Joseph

Thanks Amy, that is perfectly clear now.
Joseph