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JoJo_L
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January 14, 2013
Question

HTML 5 Skins, editable?

  • January 14, 2013
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Hello,

I am trialling RH 10

I would like to modify the look of HTML5 output but it doesnt seem that I can modify the skins. Is it possible to add my own icon and change colours of background, borders and fonts?

Thanks in advance,

Joanna

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RoboColum_n_
RoboColum_n_
Legend
January 14, 2013

Hi JoJo_L and welcome to the RH forums.

If you look in your Project Set-up pod you will find a series of Screen Layouts. If you expand the layout for the device you want your output on, you can change the look and feel of the various elements using the Screen Layout Editor.

RickNoll
RickNoll
Inspiring
January 25, 2013

How does using this editor get imported to a CHM output?

Peter Grainge
Community Expert
Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 29, 2013

A CHM file is just a compiled version of a bunch of HTML files. RoboHelp authors in XHTML with a WYSIWYG UI. HTML5 is a standard for web output but not all RoboHelp outputs are HTML5 compatible. I pretty sure that CHMs are not HTML5 compatible and probably never will be. To be compatible would need the Microsoft HTML Help Compiler to be be updated to handle HTML5 and I can't see that happening anytime soon.


The Design Editor is not HTML5. When you create an HTML5 output, the output files are generated as HTML5. All other outputs remain as HTML4.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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Willam van Weelden
Willam van Weelden
Inspiring
January 14, 2013

Hi,

You are posting this question in the HTML help forum. Do you create CHM or do you want to try HTML5?

You can completely skin the HTML5 skins any way you like. Be advised that you will need to know HTML and CSS if you want to undertake this. (Or probably much cheaper, hire a professional like myself

Greet,

Willam

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