Need CSS Help

Question

I imported a Word doc into RoboHelp. The Word doc had its own style sheet, which was imported as well, but I created my own style sheet for the Help project and applied it to all topics.

I'm having two problems with my CSS:

Having added a new style to my custom style sheet and applied the new style to a sentence or image, when I go back to see if the correct style is highlighted in the Style pod, it's not. It has always defaulted back to either "Normal" or "None."
I created a style for a numbered list and a bulleted list, but although the style is set up to have little spacing between each number or bullet, the list always ends up with 14pt spacing. When I right-click on the text and look at the paragraph settings, I see that the Before: setting is 14pt. My style is not set up that way, so it seems that this other setting is overriding my style.

Many thanks for your help,

Maura

Peter Grainge · Accepted Answer

I think you can just click the number or bullet icon in the toolbar to turn your selected text into a list. Don't worry, this won't* apply inline styling, it just applies the html ol/ul/li tags to turn your text into a list.

You don't really need to select a separate style (e.g. Normal) for the list, but you can if you want to. (Basically if you select Normal, it adds a p tag inside each li tag.)

If that looks fine, carry on, otherwise you can always post back with questions on how to customise the look and feel of your lists.

* well technically, in RH11 at least, it does add the type of number or bullet inline, such as disc or square, or decimal or roman numeral, etc, which is annoying but fairly minor and nothing you can do about it unless you want to manually code your lists.

Amber is correct that you don't have to select Normal but there is a reason for doing so. If you don't the browser used may have a different default font to the one you use for body text. What the user would then see is say Verdana 10pt if that is what you have chosen for your Normal paragraphs and the lists would be defined by their browser default, which could be Times Roman 12 point.

Hence in my work, when I use the list icon, I also select Normal to avoid that.

Hope we have resolved your issue.

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Peter Grainge · Answer

Which version of RoboHelp are you using and are all the patches applied?

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