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Anonymous
September 2, 2009
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RH7 - Removing TRs

  • September 2, 2009
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Hello everyone. I have been working with RoboHelp 7 for a few months now and as a web developer, I'm not too happy with it. I'm sure it's great for the WYSIWYG people, but I enjoy coding stuff and having it coded the way I wanted. Sorry, just a little vent. Onwards to the issue...

I have a decently sized project. I have a table with a TH that spans 3 columns. Below that is another series of TH's. The problem I'm having is it will remove the TRs for those headings which messes up the whole table.

Also, right about that is a div that has a conditional build. I don't believe that matters because I have another table on a different page that looks just fine, but only one series of TH's.

I just don't get why RoboHelp thinks removing the TR tags for the headings, as if to make them all one row, is helpful in anyway.

Sorry for my frustration, but I thought I was close to finishing this project

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Willam van Weelden
Willam van Weelden
Inspiring
September 3, 2009

Hi,

RoboHelp is not a fully fledged html editor, and it's not a tool for webdesign. You can use all the basic html, but when it comes to DIV's, non standard tables, floating lists, multiple style sheets and so on, I always use an external editor. I don't know why Robo removes your TH, but it probably doesn't understand it, since a 'regular table' doesn't have such headers.

The only thing that'll solve your problem, is to use a third party editor for the specific file. You will however lose the benefits of RoboHelp (conditional build tags, variables, etc).

Greet,

Willam

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Anonymous
September 3, 2009

That's discouraging. I'm going to try out RH8 and see if it's any better. If not, I'll just have to come up with a different solution.

Willam van Weelden
Willam van Weelden
Inspiring
September 3, 2009

Hi,

Discouraging? Only if you expect a fully blown webdesign tool... If you want to be able to use all html features, you better get Dreamweaver.

Robo8 is much better than Robo7 in many ways, but I find the table support still somewhat limited. Let us know how it works out for you.

Greet,

Willam

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