Text-only Popups

ConTextCB,

You say

I simply removed the background color attribute from the line to remove the dropshadow box.

strPopupDiv += "<DIV ID='" + getPopupShadowID(nIndex) + "' STYLE=\"position:absolute;top:0; left:0; background-color:#C0C0C0;\"></DIV>";

I simply removed the background color attribute from the line to remove the dropshadow box.

So it looks like this?
strPopupDiv += "<DIV ID='" + getPopupShadowID(nIndex) + "' STYLE=\"position:absolute;top:0; left:0; \"></DIV>";


How does removing the background color also remove the shadow? Is it because the shadow would use the background color if there were any?

By the way, congratulations. Thanks for posting back.

Harvey

Colum is nearly always right.

However, you should look at the file ehlpdhtm.js.

There are more than 50 references to BSSCPopup, which is the function that handles text-only popups. Scroll down to this line:

/// Section Begin - Popup (JavaScript 1.0)


A few lines below that you'll see a reference to dropshadow. I don't have time to explore this further today, but I'm sure somewhere along the way you can modify or delete the shadow. The changes will affect all text-only popups in the output.

Start with ehlpdhtml.js in the output directory. Fiddle with it there as much as you like.

If you settle on something you want to make permanent, for all future WebHelp ouput, change dhtml.js here:

Program Files/Adobe/Adobe RoboHelp 7/RoboHTML/

Otherwise, you must modify the output file every time you generate WebHelp.

(As usual, save a copy of the original file, make backups, I can't guarantee results, this is advice only, etc. etc.)

Plese report back.

Harvey

Okay. Thanks.

Unfortunately I don't think there is a lot you can do about that shadow. It has certainly been around since RHX5 and maybe before that.