Heading style is suddenly no longer applied in RH8

Report · Mar 15, 2010

My colleague has been using a custom header style with no problems. The other day, the style is suddenly no longer applied in preview.

The project and styled text appear as they should on my computer, but not his.

Coincidentally, an upgrade to Explorer 7 was made prior to the new issue, but not sure why that impacts the preview, and the upgrade doesn't impact the project appearance on my computer.

Does he need to reinstall Robohelp to fix this issue?

Just in case, the style is:

P.01ProcessHeading {
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
margin-bottom: 12pt;
margin-left: 0in;
border-bottom-style: Ridge;
font-size: 18pt;
color: #000000;
border-bottom-width: 2px;
border-bottom-color: #db281c;
font-family: Arial;
}

The HTML of the styled text is:

<body>
<?rh-script_start ?><script src="../../ehlpdhtm.js" type="text/javascript"
        language="JavaScript1.2"></script><?rh-script_end ?>
<p class="01ProcessHeading">Topic Title     <a
href="02_Topic_title.htm"><img src="..\..\notepage.png" alt=""
           style="border: none;" width="16"
           height="18" border="0" /></a></p>

I wondered if charset=utf-8 might be a problem - mentioned on another forum topic, http://forums.adobe.com/message/1937722#1937722

Report · Mar 16, 2010

Hi,

The name of the style starts with numbers. This is invalid CSS and is causing the problems. The best solution is to rename the style (don't use numbers if you can avoid it) and use a find and replace operation to correct the style in your project. (Make a backup first).

Search for all class="01ProcessHeading" and replace it with class="MyNewName".

You can validate your css by using the free W3C CSS validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Greet,

Willam

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Report · Mar 16, 2010

What output are we talking about?

I would start by creating a test project and checking that is still OK on your machine. If it is, zip up that project and transfer it to your colleagues machine and see what happens.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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Report · Mar 16, 2010

Good call Willam but curious why that would affect one machine.

If numbering is important to NorBec, is there a problem with simply putting the numbering after some alpha characters? Again, curious.