Format of breadcrumb link when hovering

[Guest]

In my style sheet, I specified that an active hyperlink is blue, and a hovered hyperlink is blue and underlined.
My breadcrumb links are blue, but I don't see where I can make them underlined when hovered.
Is there any way to do this within the RoboHelp application? (I'd rather not mess with code.)
Thank you.

[Peter Grainge]

Welcome to the forum.

Look in the wizard when you generate. There is a button that enables you to format the breadcrumbs.

[Guest]

Thank you. I do see the format function for breadcrumbs when generating the layout, but it does not handle the particular format I described, i.e., underlining when hovering.

[Captiv8r]

Welcome to our community, AbigailAnn

Normally the default setting is to adhere to whatever is specified in your topic styles. Are you finding that's not the case?

Cheers... Rick

[Guest]

Thanks, Rick. My breadcrumbs are the same color as links in the topic style, but in the topic style I specified that a 'Hyperlink (hovered)' would be underlined, and that's the part that's not working in breadcrumbs. The hover-underlining is working well in the topics, but not in the breadcrumbs. -- Abbie

[Captiv8r]

Hmmm, how odd

I just tested by editing my style sheet so that upon hovering I saw a background change (Red with Yellow text) and that part worked. Perhaps it's an issue with underlining. I'll see if that works too.

Hmmm, the underlining worked on mine.

Maybe Peter can think of what's happening. My mind is a bit of mush at the moment.

Cheers... Rick

[Guest]

If it worked for you, that's encouraging. I'll try re-defining the topic style and see if it takes.

[Guest]

If it worked for you, that's encouraging. I'll try re-defining the topic style and see if it takes.

[Guest]

I've discovered that the nature of my problem is not the breadcrumbs, but rather the fact that the underlining when hovering does not show for links that have been visited. I want underlining to show whenever I hover over a hyperlink, whether or not it has been visited. The style sheet tool in RoboHelp doesn't offer the ability to distinguish between a hyperlink (visited) and a hyperlink (visited & hovered). I have defined the hyperlink (hovered) as underlined, which works well until the link has been visited -- then the underline doesn't appear when hovering. Is there a work-around?

[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

I think you need to define a visited hyperlink style.

See http://www.grainge.org/pages/snippets/snippets.htm item 27

Maybe just a.visited. Look in the RH style editor, it may be an option there.

[Guest]

Thank you, Peter. The information in item 27 of your snippets list gave the answer I needed. I changed the order of style definitions within my style sheet, putting the A:hover style after the other A: styles, and this gave me what I wanted. Thanks!!