DHTML changes color (from green to blue) upon compile

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April 18, 2011
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I have RH HTML 8.0.2.208

Compiling to Microsoft HTML Help

When I compile, the DHTML drop-downs change color from green to blue.

I need them to remain green. Anyone know what might be causing this?

It started happening kinda randomly - it was green the last 10 times I compiled, suddenly all the DHTML drop-downs (in the output) are blue.

They remain green in the project (in the Design view).

Thanks

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Captiv8r

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Welcome to our community, LIsa

Generally speaking, these are known as Hyperlinks. The colors are typically controlled by CSS (Cascading Stylesheet Specification) rules. It's possible that the rules state one color for unvisited and the other for visited?

Perhaps you need to explore the CSS rules defined.

Cheers... Rick

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Also, if I Preview the topic from RH HTML,the drop-downs are green.

As soon as I compile,the drop-downs change to blue.

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sabine7y7y7yAuthor

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Hello again

With CHM files things are a bit "interesting". This is because CHM files use elements of Microsoft Internet Explorer to present the content. You likely need to clear the IE history in order to reset things. Otherwise the links will be interpreted as read because you have viewed the CHM in an earlier session.

It is for this reason that I always elected to make visited and unvisited links (regular HTML hyperlinks or DHTML hyperlinks) to be the same color and not use the visited indictation.

Cheers... Rick

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In the compile settings,

File > Generate > Primary Layout,

under "Additional Options", selected "Apply to All Topics" then

changed the CSS option (it was pointing to something else).