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M_Boyd
Inspiring
February 8, 2012
Question

Table headings and column/row sizes

  • February 8, 2012
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I have mapped my FM table format to a table style defined in my CSS. However, I have the following issues with the resulting RoboHelp tables:

  • I have a header row in the FrameMaker table, but the header doesn't come over into RH. All of the table rows are <td> instead of <th>. Therefore, the shading defined in my CSS for the table header row does not appear.
  • A bunch of inline formatting that I don't want is coming over, defining the table width and the row width and height. Here's an example:

<table class="formatA" cellspacing="0" width="600">

    <tr style="height: 18.00pt;">

        <td style="vertical-align: top; padding-left: 6.00pt; padding-top: 3.00pt;

             padding-right: 6.00pt; padding-bottom: 3.00pt;" width="198"><p>Report/Visualization</p></td>

        <td style="vertical-align: top; padding-left: 6.00pt; padding-top: 3.00pt;

             padding-right: 6.00pt; padding-bottom: 3.00pt;" width="402"><p>Description</p></td>

    </tr>

Is there any way to get RH to recognize table header rows?

Also, is there any way to prevent the size information from coming over? What I'd like is for the table width to be 100% and the cell widths and heights to be determined by their content (which would happen automatically if the inline formatting weren't added).

If there isn't a way to accomplish this, then I'd probably be better off not trying to map the table styles and just going with "Source". The sizes would still be fixed, but at least the shading would appear.

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Matt-Tech Comm Tools
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 8, 2012

Does the inline formatting appear if you create a new table, and don't adjust any of the table constraints?

I'm wondering if a "simple", unaltered table brings in the inline formatting, which would point to a poor interpretation of the table structure by RoboHelp.

AFA the Table heading, I suspect that again it's a result of how RH interprets the table structure.

-Matt Sullivan

@mattrsullivan

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant
M_Boyd
M_BoydAuthor
Inspiring
February 8, 2012

I tried creating both a "simple" table and a "FormatA" table without making any adjustments (not manually resizing the columns or anything). And yes, I still get the inline formatting. <sigh>

Peter Grainge
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 9, 2012

Forget FM for a moment. I think that if you create a table in RoboHelp using TH you will find  RoboHelp simply does not understand TH.

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