Descreasing width of search box? (Orange skin)

Peter,

Thanks for taking the time to explain the background. It does help to know why the design is the way it is. An option for a limited number of settings for a basic layout or anything to streamline the number of configurations sounds good to me. 

Ah yes, thank you--I see from your site that it does the same thing. I imagine that issue would be very low on the enhancement request list (if it is possible to change that aspect of the design), and probably only a few, if any, would have a preference for a change. RoboHelp 2020 is quite powerful, but I'm finding the adjustment of a skin to be the opposite of straightforward. The preview helps some of the time but doesn't always highlight what a setting is linked to, sometimes the descriptions are cryptic, etc. If Adobe RH ever has an opportunity for arranging discussion of user experience of the functionality, that would be nice. Although I suppose skin set up, while somewhat painful, may not be a focus because it tends to be infrequent.

"I'd like to decrease the width because when the search bar is activated, it hides the full title in the top header bar."

The area with your title is replaced by a different area that contains the search box. The search is not overlaying the title, the whole area changes. Go to RoboHelp Tour Introduction (grainge.org) and you will see it's the panel that changes rather than the search box sitting on top of the title.

That's the way it is meant to work. 

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Thank you,

Here are three screen shots.

The title isn't displayed when the search bar is activated:

A screenshot would help.

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I've been trying to change the width of the search bar for the Topic Page. Decreasing the width for each of the following settings didn't affect the width of the field where the user enters search terms :

Topic Page > Search Box > search > Layout > Width

Topic Page > Search Box > searchbar > Layout > Width

I'd like to decrease the width because when the search bar is activated, it hides the full title in the top header bar. I also tried changing the display settings for the title (Header > Title > Layout > Display; currently the Display setting is flex) but didn't find a way to make that work either. 

Which search box? There are search boxes on the Home Page and on Topic pages.

In the skin Editor there are tabs for both the Home page and Topic pages. See the Search options there.

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