Drop-down hotspots- alignment problems

Question

I'm using RoboHelp 7 and have a project with a lot of topics
that contain bulleted lists with drop-down hotspots and text. I've
encountered an alignment issue in these drop-down hotspots and am
hoping that someone can help me understand how to fix it.

I want to indent the text that appears when you open the
drop-down so it aligns under the text for the bullet item rather
than under the bullet itself (so it's easier for users to
differentiate the drop-down text from the bulleted list).

To do this, I did the following:
1) Created my drop-down hotspot
2) Deleted the default text that appears in the text box
3) Clicked the Increase Indent icon
4) Entered the drop-down text

The text appears aligned correctly in the WYSIWYG editor, but
has a hanging indent when I preview it and after I've generated
WebHelp output. The paragraph format doesn't show a hanging indent,
but that's what I see in the preview and generated output.

Can anyone explain why this happens and how I can fix it?
Thanks for your help . . .

RoboColum_n_ · Accepted Answer

The way to handle this is to create a new style in your stylesheet with the correct indentation and apply this inside your dropdown.

HKabaker · Answer

Dropdown text is stored in the topic. Check the source codeand output files for a clue. When using bullets, editing bulletedtext, inserting a non-bulleted line and deleting it, and so on, Ihave seen negative indent values creep in where you wouldn't expectthem to.Also, locate the code where you think you inserted theincreased indent.Where bullets appear in the main text, look at the

and

tags, as well as

and or

and . Sometimes you can drop one or pick oneup, which will confuse the indent.With any luck, you'll find the problem in source file.Colum's suggestion to apply a style to the dropdown text is agood idea, too. Still, if you've done a bit of editing in thatarea, tags can get confused.Hope this helps.Harvey

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