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Anonymous
August 20, 2009
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Footer looks lovely (in RH), published view shows yukky black line

  • August 20, 2009
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I have been using an .htt for quite awhile (several months) and was happy with the centered, font size 8, copyright notice in a muted gray.

This week, I noticed some topics sporting a wide black line that doesn't respect margins in place of that lovely footer.

So I checked the .htt, which still has a nice body/footer/header layout. I renamed the desired .htt, highlighted all topicsin the topics list, right clicked, and assigned it as the Master page. Cleared my published folder locations, and republished. Same ugly black line.

What happened?

RH 8, project was upgraded from RH 7 in June 2009.

Possible corollary (but different topics): certain books on the published server(s), are stuck in a sort of strobe light state and display nothing. If I click on some other topic, the "book" has toggled (expanded/closed).

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Correct answer Willam van Weelden

Hi,

For a quick fix, use a find and replace tool,  FAR does a good job, to replace

<?rh-region_end type="footer" ?>


with


<?rh-region_end type="body" ?>

<?rh-region_start type="footer" style="width: 100%; position: relative;" ?>  <p class="Footer">Copyright (C) 2005-2009 UBmatrix, Inc.</p> <?rh-region_end type="footer" ?>

Note that your correct topics also end with <?rh-region_end type="footer" ?>, so do NOT automatically replace all instances, check EVERYTHING before you replace it! If you only have a handful of faulty topics, you may just want to do it by hand.

What happens in your topics is that the footer is closed, but the body is not closed and your footer isn't opened. I expect that RoboHelp will add these lines itself, when you modify the topics in the WYSIWYG editor.

Greet,

Willam

2 replies

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cvgs
Inspiring
August 20, 2009

This is something that I'm trying to do.  I was able to put the copyright in so that it displays at the bottom of each topic, but how do I get it to be formatted differently from the rest of the topic (smaller font size and specific font)?

Thanks.

RoboColum_n_
RoboColum_n_
Legend
August 20, 2009

Create a new style with the font characteristics you want and assign this to the footer.

Read the RoboColum(n).

Willam van Weelden
Willam van Weelden
Inspiring
August 20, 2009

Hi,

One addition to Colum's post. The paragraph you use for the footer already has the class Footer. In your stylesheet, create the class P.Footer {} and add the markup you want. This will style all the footer paragraphs at once.

Greet,

Willam

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Anonymous
August 20, 2009

I think i found the problem (for the footer). But I don't know how to fix it.

The topics with the ugly black line end as:

<?rh-region_end type="footer" ?>

The topics that have an intact footer end as:

<?rh-region_end type="body" ?>
<?rh-region_start type="footer" style="width: 100%; position: relative;" ?>
<p class="Footer">Copyright (C) 2005-2009 UBmatrix, Inc.</p>
<?rh-region_end type="footer" ?>

Is there a quick fix?

Jenelle the American

Willam van Weelden
Willam van WeeldenCorrect answer
Inspiring
August 20, 2009

Hi,

For a quick fix, use a find and replace tool,  FAR does a good job, to replace

<?rh-region_end type="footer" ?>


with


<?rh-region_end type="body" ?>

<?rh-region_start type="footer" style="width: 100%; position: relative;" ?>  <p class="Footer">Copyright (C) 2005-2009 UBmatrix, Inc.</p> <?rh-region_end type="footer" ?>

Note that your correct topics also end with <?rh-region_end type="footer" ?>, so do NOT automatically replace all instances, check EVERYTHING before you replace it! If you only have a handful of faulty topics, you may just want to do it by hand.

What happens in your topics is that the footer is closed, but the body is not closed and your footer isn't opened. I expect that RoboHelp will add these lines itself, when you modify the topics in the WYSIWYG editor.

Greet,

Willam

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Anonymous
August 20, 2009

Thx Willam!

(now I see the strobe light problem is related to some of the topics were apparently "saved" from a published repository. There are multiple lines of javascript in the header (html view). When I delete this, the whole topic content disappears.

Any ideas on how to fix THAT issue?

i.e.here's what most certainly doesn't belong in the help topic source file

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