"x-use-popup" and "x-popup-type" attributes

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December 23, 2008
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I'm working with old robohelp (vers 3) htm files which use "x-use-popup" and "x-popup-type" attributes in anchor tags for dropdown hotspots. These are not supported in the HTML 4.01 Transitional doctype and as such the files won't validate. What can I use in their place that is supported and will validate?
Posted in HTMLHelp forum a few weeks ago - no replies - does anybody know of supported attributes that accomplish the same thing? Thanks, and Happy Holidays!

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Peter Grainge

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You would need to try the latest version (RH7) on a non production machine. Is it an issue that it does not validate? I am assuming the help is working.

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Anonymous

The Help is working fine. I don't have RH7, and suspect that these attributes are robohelp-specific, as they are not listed anywhere else in my research (ie W3C). I would like the topics to validate, and those attributes for the most part are the only obstacle. I suspect that the popups and dropdowns are created with javascript now, but I am not sure how to accomplish it. Thanks for the response.

Captiv8r

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Hi there nickpen

Are you seeing that this code exists in the output? What is the output? Does it work but the only issue is it won't validate? If so, why is validation so important? (oops, in re-reading the post, I see Peter asked the same thing)

As Peter indicated, you really should take a look at RoboHelp 7. It offers a nifty little check box when you create output so that the result should pass W3C validation.

Cheers... Rick

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