RoboHelp 2019 - Limiting the width of a topic

[debbies3920563]

I'm working with RoboHelp 2019 (2019.0.14) - not the Classic version. I'm using Responsive HTML5 Output (Azure Blue). When I stretch the screen across, the text stretches all the way across. Our UX expert asked that the text not stretch all the way across, but rather we have a maximum width defined. I could not figure out how to do this (I tried formatting the Master Page, but wasn't successful). Any ideas?

[Peter Grainge]

You need to go into the CSS and create left and right margins.

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[debbies3920563]

Do you mean in the Master Page? Where should the cursor be when I make the changes. When I tried it, the tag was "br" and I changed the margins marked in red in the attached image (but it didn't work). Is that what you mean?

[Peter Grainge]

You need to edit the body tag of the CSS applied to the topics.

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[Peter Grainge]

Working now?

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[debbies3920563]

I still wasn't able to get this to work. This is what I set in the CSS:

The text itself is marked with a style called "BodyText".

[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

BR is the line break tag, not the body tag. Try this.

Set that in the topic CSS and you should be OK. I am assuming your master page uses the same CSS as your topics and you don't override it in your outputs.

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[debbies3920563]

Perfect. Thanks. Worked like a charm!