Patrick Malley

Urs - I'm in full support of option 2 and will start this cleanup at the end of my process as well. CSS in the way that you've presented it is the way I'm accustomed to reading and writing CSS.

Doesn't #1 already exist though? Isn't Moodle stripping out the white space in CSS before presenting it to the browser?

I've been styling CSS one way for a while, but I decided to try your method for formfactor and canvas. I'm not convinced that it's better, but I'm still testing. I understand why you drill down through the code. Once get one or two themes I'll probably clean things up.

The idea of a "sideblock" no longer exists. Since we created regions, these "blocks" can theoretically and practically go anywhere (even in the center column). Therefore, it seemed appropriate to rename the historical .sideblock to just plain old .block.

If you want to style sideblocks, you can use something like:

#region-pre .block

or

#region-post .block

Let me know if you have any questions.

Patrick

That's a neat idea, but the difference between these options should be more clear. I thought that the selection applied different styles within the theme I selected.

That's exactly the sort of thing I would love to see, actually. Perhaps we could build it off the YUI menu? That would make my clients and me very happy.