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Anonymous

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Layout changes

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
July 26, 2011
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I'm rather new to Robohelp, but I've taken over a previously established project.

I'm giving the project a facelift and not managing at all to get the layout to look how I want it.

It must remain a webhelp.

Apart from skin changes it does not seem possible to change the layout at all. There are spaces between the buttons that need to be removed. Or I need to display the buttons above or below a logo. Is any of this possible? Is there a way to change the physical layout of the objects in the webhelp?

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Peter Grainge

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Stuck key or do you have trouble with pronouncing your name?

I think you are talking about the toolbar buttons and your logo on that rather than in your topics. If so then it pretty much as you see it. The place to go for any skin customisation tricks is Rick Stone's Skinny on Skins.

http://www.robowizard.com/RoboWizard/NewProject.htm#Downloads/Skinny_on_Skins.htm

If you are talking about your topics, then a screenshot showing what you want to change would help. Use the camera icon to insert it.

Also please see the Before You Post sticky topic. Answers can depend on knowing which version of RoboHelp you are using.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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Anonymous

Thanks for the assist. The file helped a little, but I still cannot find the answers to these questions:

(I am using Robohelp 9)

How can I add css styles to every item in die Table of Contents? I want to add padding to them (the method described in the skinny file does not work), border them and shade their :hover attribute.

I want them to look like this (the gradient fill is not neccesary):

Then, also, I would like to restrict the entire page to being 1024 pixels wide.

Can this be done?

Willam van Weelden

Inspiring

I've changed TocWriteStyle() many times and the changes simply don't appear in the website.

So here's what I've done to solve my problem:

I ran a find>replace all (using dreamweaver) on all the whlstt# files, adding a link to a style sheet to each of them. This works.

Perhaps it is inelegant, but at least I'm getting results.

Hmm, the files in the folder whgdata are normally used as a backup when the data from whxdata cannot be used. Are you generating pure HTML for the navigation pane. That would explain why editing whthost doesn't work.

As long as your problem is solved.

Greet,

Willam

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