Why do linebreaks appear either before or after tables in the WYSIWYG area of topics in RoboHELP HTML? Is it because I am inserting paragraphs formatted with no space above and below immediately before and after the table?
After I delete them, then save and close the project and then reopen the project once again, these linebreaks appear again creating extra whitespace after the table when generating final MS HTML output. This does not occur to each table in every topic though. It appears to happen in some, but not all even though the formatting is the same for each topic as I have copied the same table (formatting style -- None from the default .css style sheet). Is this simply a RoboHelp bug that cannot be fixed or is there a solution to this dilemma? I have been using RoboHelp HTML in various versions since 1998 (currently using the latest version RoboHelp 9). Please note that I am creating the table from scratch and not importing anything from Word or other program to create any coding issues behind the scene (I only use the WYSIWYG Design editor tab -- I do not edit the code in the HTML tab).
Here's a screenshot of the issue
Thanks in advance for any advice/helpful input...you guys have created a great forum for help in solving user issues!!
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Thanks so much for attempting to help solve this issue, RoboColum(n) !! I have a small amount of HTML knowledge from a beginner course and a long ago HTML admin guide which I was asked to format from the raw info provided for a dot.com company many years ago -- so I do understand this to a certain extent. I'm just not a coder extraordinairre at this point (lol).
Here's the equivalent markup code which includes a smattering of the code before and after the linebreak "<br />" (I highlighted the linebreak code in bold type before the next line of code -- "<?rh-list_start level...") :
<p class="Bodytext"> </p>
<table style="vertical-align: Center;" cellspacing="0" width="95%" align="center">
<col style="width: 9.407%;" />
<col style="width: 90.593%;" />
<tr style="vertical-align: center; height: 100px;">
<td style="width: 9.407%; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px;"><p
class="Note" style="text-align: center;"><img src="Notepad - use for notes.jpg"
alt="" style="border: none;"
width="40"
height="39"
border="0" /></p></td>
<td style="width: 90.593%; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px;"><p
class="NOTE">If some corporate forms should be signed at this
point, the activity will be finished by the Signature Step on
site. The Hiring Manager signs the corporate forms package and
the activity is placed in the Work Queue if the I-9 form is not
completed in the Signature Step.</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
<?rh-list_start level="1" an="1" class="rl-p-Procedurestep" ?><p class="Procedurestep1"
style="margin-top: 0pt;">If the New Employee provides proof of eligibility
documents within the 3 business days timeframe, the Hiring Manager may
initiate the I-9 3 Business-Days Step by clicking on the New Employee’s
name associated with the I-9 3 Business-Days activity in the I-9 3 Business-Days
process tab of the Work Queue (example shown below).</p><?rh-list_end ?>
<p class="Graphic"><img src="WQ (Click activity to launch I-9 3 Bus-Days Step wizard).jpg"
alt="" style="border: Solid 1px #000000; border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;" width="1300" height="644"
border="1" /></p>
In your first post you said "Is it because I am inserting paragraphs formatted with no space above and below immediately before and after the table?"
The code you cite is a paragraph with an empty space.
So the answer you have come to is "Yes".
  is the entity that represents a space in HTML. See http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp for more.
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