How to insert a circle in a robohelp 10 topic?

[Guest]

Hi All,

I would like to insert coloured circles containing text in my help project to point out tips and key features but can't seem to figure out how to do this, Does anyone know if this is possible and how I go about it?

Thanks,

Louis

[Willam van Weelden]

Possible, yes. How complex it is depends on what you want to do.

There are two ways of doing this that you can implement in RoboHelp:

1. Make images with the text on them and insert them in RoboHelp. Text will not be searchable and this creates bad accessibility.
2. Create div elements where you add the text. Make blank circle images and apply those as background to the elements.

For DIV elements, check: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_div.asp

For backgrounds, check: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp

Greet,

Willam

[shawnvw]

I'm not that familiar with HTML, but it looks like your DIV elements solution would put text inline with other text.

In RoboHTML 11, I need to simulate callouts and text-boxes in Word: Text can be positioned at any point near a picture, even floating in front of it if necessary. And the text would still be searchable. Can you do that with DIV elements?

Thanks.

[Willam van Weelden]

It does. You can use CSS float (CSS Float) and CSS positioning (CSS Positioning) to do that.

Kind regards,

Willam