Patrick Malley

I don't see anything specifically in the CSS that would cause this and since I don't seem to have the same lesson structure on my test site, I can't help you much.

Try this:

1.) Open esocrates.css with a basic text editor.

2.) Start commenting out /* place marks like this before and after the code you want to comment out */ large segments of code, hard refreshing your browser (Ctrl+F5) each time.

For example,

/*
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font:normal Tahoma,sans-serif;
line-height:1.5em;
font-size:0.9em;
color:#626262;
background:white;
}

#site-index #page,
#course-view #page {
min-width:725px;
}
td {
font:normal Tahoma,sans-serif;
line-height:1.5em;
color:#626262;
}
*/

3.) This should narrow down which part of esocrates.css is causing your display issue.

4.) Report back what you find and I should be able to give you an alternative way to present things that won't screw up your display.

You're going to need to help us help you a little better than this. I've had a look at the lesson module in both esocrates and standard and cannot find a difference (screenshot of standard attached).

I can answer your general questions for you.

esocrates uses standarwhite as a parent theme, which uses all of the stylesheets from the standard theme. When esocrates loads, CSS from all three themes load in the reverse order of how I have listed them above.

Any style added to the standard theme CSS that does not have a contradicting style present in the "cascade" will appear in your final theme.

Graphically, this site does look good. I'd like to point out, though, that the use of the login menu in the header is a CSS hack that is breaking the right-column layout in Safari (and perhaps other browsers as well.

I would just like to add that there is nothing objective about any of the following terms:

• beautiful
• sophisticated
• fancy

For this reason, you will never find what you are looking for. We all think our themes are the most beautiful, sophisticated, and fancy. That is why we made them!

Perhaps a better way of phrasing this post would be to give an example of sites or aspects of design that you find fit this pattern, then ask if any Moodle Themes match your required specifications.

We now have AJAX ratings, which is remarkably better and more useful. Can we possibly get rid of the "You have just posted to this forum .... Continue" text that appears every time you post to a forum. Can't we just see that we've posted.

This is written like a rant ... unintentionally. No constructive energy at the moment, I guess.