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April 20, 2012
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Multi level lists inside drop-downs

  • April 20, 2012
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Does anyone know how to fix/what is wrong with multi level lists inside drop-downs, inside drop-downs? (hope that makes sense!)

Basically, if you create a drop-down hotspot, then create another drop-down hotspot inside that and put a multi-level list inside it, the numbering for the list does not show up. I've checked the output HTML and it seems identical to a normal multi-level list (strangely RoboHelp uses P tags instead of LI/UL tags).

I'm using RoboHelp 8 by the way.

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Peter Grainge
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April 20, 2012

Dropdowns within dropdowns have caused problems in the past. Rick Stone has often advised creating the content in the main topic and then pasting it into the dropdown. Maybe that trick will work here.


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m_d_uk2Author
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April 26, 2012

That doesn't work i'm afraid - looking at the code view, it uses P tags (as i mentioned above) and RoboHelp's own "<?rh-list_start class="NumbLists" ?>" tag, so RoboHelp must interact with the page somehow and add the numbering/bullets in when you publish/preview.

Its clearly a bug, just not picking up the "<?rh-list_start class="NumbLists" ?>" tag inside dropdowns that are in dropdowns.

Anyone got any ideas, or will this just be added to the ever growing lists of things that annoy me in RoboHelp?

Peter Grainge
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May 17, 2012

I see the same so I think you will have to add it to your list but please follow this link and report the problem.

http://www.Adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=38


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