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creating styles

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
April 12, 2011
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I'm an experienced RH8 user, but I still struggle with getting styles set up and to work. Right now I'm trying to create some character styles because I don't want to use inline styles, per Kevin Siegel's RH8 book. specifically I've created a style for a Result and then I try to apply it by selecting text and nothing happens. I've been searching Peter Grainge's website for info on styles but coming up empty. Can someone refer me somewhere specifically?

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Exactly How are you creating the character styles, the best way is to do it through style POD (Format->Styles) and from the first button you can create any styles and use it in the associated topics, or else you have the freedom of always creating character styles directly in the style sheet (.css file) but in this case what might be going wrong is that you might have created the style in one CSS but that is not associated to the topic in which you are using this style, we should associate the CSS to the topic (can be verified from the assign style sheet or create New combo in the formatting tool bar)

Hope this helps

Ashish

luviola10Author

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Thanks for your help, Ashish.

I guess I want to know the best procedure for the following. I am using the

default .css and I am able to create new styles within the default. Should I

be doing that or naming the .css something new besides default? So I tried

just adding new styles to the default .css I inherited with the project.

Thanks,

Gloria

Adobe Employee

You can create new stylesheet for your own custom styles, but make sure classes are unique. It will help you to find styles created by you.

So once you create a new style sheet, you can attach that style sheet in the topic properties and then use styles from the style pod.

Let me know if you still have any queries.

Adobe Employee

Hey Luviola

Could you please take following steps:

1. Open the topic in design editor

2. Select the text to which you want to apply style

3. Click Format menu from the top menu bar and choose styles..

4. It should open the Styles and Formatting Pod

5. From there you can choose your desired styles

Please let me know if this works for you or not.

Thanks.

Adobe Employee

Also if you want to create customer styles, then do following:

1. go to the project folder, look for the file with .css extension and open that in notepad.

2. There you can define the styles such as

SPAN.resulttext

{

font-style: italic;

font-family: arial;

color: #00ff00;

font-size: 12px;

}

3. Then go to inside RoboHelp and do above steps.

Let me know if you have any query.