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Siju George
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April 29, 2020
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RH2019 Frameless: Doesn’t Robohelp2019 support editing the .CSS file?

  • April 29, 2020
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Hi

I have modified a few properties in the .CSS file of my project by directly editing the .CSS file. Upon generating a Frameless output the online help displays the page as per the changes made.

But I have noticed that if I make any further changes to the .CSS file either from the UI or directly on the .CSS file, the changes made earlier seems to be removed from the .CSS file. It looks like Robohelp2019 does not save the changes made directly to the .CSS file.

 

For example, I added a box-shadow property to the inner search box in the Home Page by editing the .CSS file (not from the UI) and the output display as per the change made. If I make any other change to the .CSS file and generate an output, the box-shadow is not displayed. The .CSS file reverts to the previous state without the box-shadow property.

 

This issue occurs only if I make modifications directly to the .CSS file. Any changes made from the UI are saved and works as expected.

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    Correct answer Amebr

    (I suspect my edit didn't make it in to your email notification, so I'll repost)

     

    I did a search and the Oceanic skin does have a css file but the OP advised it gets overwritten. I believe the Adobe preferred method is to use a custom css in the User Assets (at least, I haven't spotted an announcement that it's changed).
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/robohelp/how-do-i-change-the-color-of-hide-left-panel-for-mobile-in-n...

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    AmebrCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    April 30, 2020

    (I suspect my edit didn't make it in to your email notification, so I'll repost)

     

    I did a search and the Oceanic skin does have a css file but the OP advised it gets overwritten. I believe the Adobe preferred method is to use a custom css in the User Assets (at least, I haven't spotted an announcement that it's changed).
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/robohelp/how-do-i-change-the-color-of-hide-left-panel-for-mobile-in-n...

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    Siju GeorgeAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 30, 2020

    Hi Peter and Amebr

    The topic css works as expected. In my project to edit the skin, I have layoutdiff.css file. I edited the layoutdiff.css to include a box-shadow. I use Notepad++ to edit the CSS file.

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    AmebrCommunity Expert
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    April 29, 2020

    What css file are you editing? There's no text-editable css file for the skin in RH2109 New UI, so the only thing I can think is you're editing in the css file in the output, which will be overwritten when you generate.

     

    Edit: I did a search and the Oceanic skin does have a css file but the OP advised it gets overwritten. I believe the Adobe preferred method is to use a custom css in the User Assets (at least, I haven't spotted an announcement that it's changed).
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/robohelp/how-do-i-change-the-color-of-hide-left-panel-for-mobile-in-new-robohelp-ui/td-p/10937950?page=1

    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    April 29, 2020

    Does this only occur with edits to the skin css or if you do the same with a topic css? I have been editing topic css both using RoboHelp's own editor and an external editor with no trouble.

     

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