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Suzanne354505080jq6
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February 14, 2024
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HTML5 Responsive Help - Accessing the CSS used for publishing

  • February 14, 2024
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I need to make some modifications to my Help file's sts file, but when I open it in Notepad it isn't readable. Any ideas how to resolve please?:

 

 

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Correct answer Suzanne354505080jq6

What's the issue...that the topic doesn't display? Check what the bookmark is looking for and what the file name is. I'm betting there is an issue with odd/unexpected characters in the fm filename


It turns out you can't use brackets or dashes in the Headings. As soon as I removed it the topic displayed! You will both be very relieved to hear that the Help file now looks 100% how I want it. Thank you both so much for your patience with me and getting me to this very happy end point 🙂

 

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Winfried Reng
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February 14, 2024

Hi,

The sts file is just a zip file. Rename the file name extension to zip and then open it.

Best regards, Winfried

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    Suzanne354505080jq6Author
    Inspiring
    February 14, 2024

    Hi Winifried

    Thank you so much for your suggestion, but unfortunately I couldn't get that to work. 

    I compressed the .sts to zip file, but extracting the file did nothing.

    Matt-Tech Comm Tools
    Matt-Tech Comm Tools
    Community Expert
    February 15, 2024

     

     


    Hi Suzanne,

    It's hard to see what's happening, since the dialog is crowding your options, but...

    It looks like you are mapping your Heading2 to an output style of Heading2, and mapping it to an HTML Tag of pre. 

    Additionally, you are using the Split into topics based on this style option.

    If you intend to split topics on your Heading2 paras, set your options like this

    If you have subheads within your topic, set the Map to HTML Tag for them to h2, h3, etc.

    If you'd like to directly edit the CSS (which I like to do as well), there's no need to mess with the STS file...just use the Manage CSS option to Export and then after editing, use the corresponding Import option.

    If you have any questions, post a screenshot of your HTML source code from the published content.

     

     

     

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