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Anonymous
April 17, 2009
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Positioning footers at the lower edge

  • April 17, 2009
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According to the online help, RoboHelp 8 now supports the positioning of footers in the masterpage. But I found no information how this is to be done. Normally footers are simply included after the normal topic body, i.e. middle in the page if the topic is short. Naturally, most folks would expect a footer to be positioned at the lower edge regardless of the topic lenght. Is there any way to accomplish this? 

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    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    April 17, 2009

    Hi there

    In the RoboHelp universe, footers will always simply be placed immediately follwing the topic content.

    To accomplish what you seem to be wanting, you would need to create a custom Frameset, where you would insert what you wanted to see in the Footer into the bottom frame of the frameset.

    Cheers... Rick

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    Anonymous
    April 17, 2009

    Rick,

    I recall using the CSS to position the footer to an absolute placement at the bottom. I tried the old trick in RH8 but it did not seem to work the way it did in my old X5 project. I´m gone from my workplace till thursday but will try to post the code then. Thanks for the feedback anyway, I had hoped that RH8 would incorporate some built-in solution (other than framesets).

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    octechwriter
    Known Participant
    November 20, 2009

    Here is the setting that I previously used in the CSS file to position footers at the bottom, sorry for the delay. It still works in RH7 but in RH8 it does not seem to do the job any more.

    Anyway, FYI:


    @media screen {

    #footer {
            position: fixed;
      bottom: 0px;
            position: expression('absolute');
            top: expression(document.body.offsetHeight - this.offsetHeight + document.body.scrollTop - 2);
            left: 0;
            margin-left: 0;
            margin-right: 0;
            width: 100%;
            background-color: white;
    }
    }


    This CSS does work in RH8, just not quite as I expected. The footer floats at the bottom of the window, but allows the user to scroll down to infinity. Any ideas on appending the footer to the end of every topic so it doesn't float over the text, but still appears at the bottom of the window no matter how short the topic is?

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