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Not able to use Show/Hide text feature in RoboHelp

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March 6, 2018
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I want to use a feature in Robohelp which shows a text on mouse hovering a word...I don't remember the name of the feature but it surely exists...When you want to give an explanation of the word in a text box..the output should show the text on mouse hovering that word.

Similar features are Dropdown text and Expanding text...But they show text only on a click of mouse..so I don't want that...

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Captiv8r

Legend

Rick is "woke", and Peter is spot on.

I think we might be able to confirm things by making a duplicate copy of that topic, then removing the script part that references "MenuCool". My guess is that the mouseover will perform a nifty disappearing act. Thus confirming our suspicions that this feature was added in by some author at some point and is not inherent in RoboHelp.

Cheers... Rick

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sia09Author

Inspiring

Okay, so I created a duplicate copy of the topic and removed the instance of menucool...but no difference..The pop is still showing on mouse over...After much research, I agree that this feature is not available in Robohelp. And after going through the HTML code, I found that this is done with the help of a script...So wherever I want to apply this feature, I have to copy paste the script in the HTML code.

Peter Grainge

Community Expert

You haven't said what version of RoboHelp you are using but it's not a feature I can think of. There is a Text Popup but that requires clicking.

See Item 6 in Snippets Content Creation on my site. That details a method that sounds like what you want.

See www.grainge.org for free RoboHelp and Authoring information.

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sia09Author

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I am using Robohelp 11 and this feature is available in this version. I have used it before but now I am not ale to recall.. It does not require to click on the word...just hover the mouse over it and it will show you the text with details.

Peter Grainge

Community Expert

Thanks for sharing the link. I think it gives much clarity on what to do if we need text pop up on mouse over.

Will try doing the following steps in a new project of Robohelp::

Define dropt in css
Go to the HTML code of css and add the code for dropt
Go to the particular topic and then go to the html of that topic. Put the html code of dropt on that text.

Peter,

Correct me if I am wrong.

As I said, I could not get Amber's link to play nicely. I will play with

your CSS to see what I can come up with but not until next week.

I will write up what happens and post back.

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