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asutton1
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March 18, 2008
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RH Editing My CSS while Generating

  • March 18, 2008
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Anyone have any idea how to prevent RoboHELP from editing my style sheets when it generates my Help output?

Example style before generating:

.procedure-substep {
font-size:13px;
list-style-type:lower-alpha;
margin-bottom:5px;
list-style-image: none;
}

Same style after generating:

.procedure-substep {
font-size:13px;
list-style-type:lower-alpha;
margin-bottom:5px; }

The removal of "list-style-image: none" is breaking my styles.

Any info will be helpful.

Thanks!
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Correct answer HKabaker
Hi,

I find that RH will not delete the image tag when it has this form:

.procedure-substep {
font-size:13px;
list-style-type:lower-alpha;
margin-bottom:5px;
list-style-image: url();
}

Would this work for you?
Also, do you need a parallel style

LI.procedure-substep

?

Harvey

6 replies

M_Boyd
M_Boyd
Inspiring
April 7, 2008
Ha! Nope, no joke. :-)

You can use "!important" to specify that the style definitions in your .css should not be overridden (for example, by inline formatting). I use a lot with table styles so that my .css style definitions take precedence over the inline formatting that RoboHelp adds when you create a table. (Faster than deleting the inline formatting.)

Who, me? A geeky control freak? Gosh, whatever gave you that idea!
H
HKabaker
Inspiring
April 3, 2008
How many of us have looked or plan to look at W3C to check out
!important as a valid tag?

Will it also work on faulty html styles?

M_Boyd, you posted on 4/2, or I would have suspected an April Fool's joke.

Harvey
M_Boyd
M_Boyd
Inspiring
April 2, 2008
BTW, you can also solve the problem by adding the "!important" element to the list-style-image line:

{list-style-image: none !important;
}

Unlike the empty URL solution, this makes the display within the RoboHelp editor correct. This works for both .chms and Web Help.

Just thought I'd pass along the tip!
H
HKabakerCorrect answer
Inspiring
March 19, 2008
Hi,

I find that RH will not delete the image tag when it has this form:

.procedure-substep {
font-size:13px;
list-style-type:lower-alpha;
margin-bottom:5px;
list-style-image: url();
}

Would this work for you?
Also, do you need a parallel style

LI.procedure-substep

?

Harvey
MergeThis
MergeThis
Inspiring
March 20, 2008
You go, Harvey!
RoboColum_n_
RoboColum_n_
Legend
March 19, 2008
Hi asutton1 and welcome to the RH community.

These forums are peer to peer forums and are rarely visited by Adobe staff. That said, there is a wealth of experience amongst the user community so we should be able to help.

However to do this we do need as much information as you are able to give us. Does this behaviour occur in just one topic, one project? What RH version are you using? Also I am not sure what the ".procedure-substep {" is referring to. Can you tell us what you are doing to generate this code?
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asutton1Author
Participant
March 19, 2008
quote:
Originally posted by: Colum McAndrew
Hi asutton1 and welcome to the RH community.

These forums are peer to peer forums and are rarely visited by Adobe staff. That said, there is a wealth of experience amongst the user community so we should be able to help.

However to do this we do need as much information as you are able to give us. Does this behaviour occur in just one topic, one project? What RH version are you using? Also I am not sure what the ".procedure-substep {" is referring to. Can you tell us what you are doing to generate this code?


Hi, Colum. If you look at my original message, this situation is not topic or project specific, it has to do with the style sheets I use in my projects (.procedure-substep is a style in my main style sheet). It appears that during the process of generating my Help, RoboHelp (X5) is "cleaning up" my style sheets, removing some attributes, any comments, and any blank lines it encounters. I need it to not do this as it is breaking my styles within my topics by doing so.
MergeThis
MergeThis
Inspiring
March 19, 2008
Would you be surprised if I told you that I've not seen this issue come up in my four years on this forum? Nor have I ever encountered it in operation?

Therefore, all of us who normally jump in with responses have been feverishly mulling over just what questions to ask you, to zero in on some possible solutions. Since some of us are in advanced years, this sometimes takes awhile...

For a start: are you working the project on a network? If so, stop.

Might it be the hyphen that's causing grief?

What's the rationale for having a list class with a list-style-image: none; if you're also looking to achieve
list-style-type:lower-alpha;? Is RoboHelp perhaps being oh, so helpful by saying: You didn't really want that unnecessary attribute, did you?

And, what exactly is being broken?

Yep, that's us, all right: more questions than answers!


Good luck,
Leon
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asutton1Author
Participant
March 19, 2008
Hello? Does anyone from Adobe frequent these forums to answer such questions?
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