Patrick Malley

That's currently not possible. You will have to wait until Moodle 2.0 is released sometime early in 2010 for that functionality.

This is:

a.) way more work than necessary for such a simple style change, and

b.) not advised since it requires edits to the core code which will be lost at your next upgrade.

Sorry Anushka. I didn't mean to be rude. it just sounded like you were on the right track and I thought it would be ideal if you just copied and pasted the CSS code you've tried into the text editor so that others could have a look.

The reality is that styling a specific block is quite easy since every block has a corresponding ID generated for it's surrounding div element that can be styled indiviually.

For example, if I were to style the Participants block on a demo course on my local install, I would add the following to the bottom of one of my stylesheets:

#inst33.sideblock {
background:#ff0000;
color:#ffffff;
}

Your sideblocks will have different #inst number values, but this should give you the idea. Good luck.

Why not share with us what you've tried?

I'm not able to duplicate the issue pictured. Could you explain a bit more specifically what's going on? Perhaps try reinstalling the theme by renaming the old directory and uploading a new.

Also, could you give a bit more detailed explanation of which browsers are causing you trouble - the labels in the screenshot aren't necessarily doing the job.