Hi, Can you post a html page and your css so we can look at this? One thing: Do you only have this problem in HTML Help, or also in the preview / WYSIWYG / Webhelp output? Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, A masterpage is a template. You add a style sheet, certain standard text, a header and a footer. You control the headers and footers for all pages related to the masterpage from that masterpage. A new page based on the masterpage also uses the same style sheet as the masterpage and has the standard text. Since you want it unique, creating a masterpage for this seems a little overdone. The easiest way to do this, is to add a background in your first topics. Say you want your company's watermark to appear at the bottom right of the first topic. In the head section of the topic, add the following code: <style>      body {background: url("mybackground.jpg") no-repeat right bottom; } </style> See this W3C Schools page for more information on background. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi again, This was a major pain, I think this happens because IE (including 8) doesn't correctly support the text-direction. To solve this, I made two small changes, of which the first is probably unnecessary, but still... In whihost.js, in the function IndexWriteClassStyle(), I added the following: sStyle+="* {direction: rtl;}"; directly above the line sStyle+="</STYLE>";. Next, in whibody.htm on line 73 is the following code:     var strMenu = '<TABLE STYLE="border:2px outset white;" CELLSPACING=0';. Replace it with:     var strMenu = '<TABLE STYLE="border:2px outset white; direction: rtl;" CELLSPACING=0';. This works on my pc on IE6 and above. Greet, Willam PS: Solve all IE bugs... Use Firefox! ... View more

Hi, This behaviour is also present in RoboHelp 7. To disable this in RoboHelp 7, open whthost.js and comment out the line: aIdList[aIdList.length-1].focus(); like this: //aIdList[aIdList.length-1].focus();. I don't have Robo8 before me now, but searching for this line in the Robo8 whthost.js may also eliminate this behaviour for Robo8. Greet, Willam Message was edited by: Peter Grainge For RH8 you will find the file in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2\Adobe RoboHelp 8\RoboHTML\WebHelp5Ext\template_stock  Delete Adobe\Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 from the path if you are using standalone RoboHelp. ... View more

Hi, Changing the doctype of your output files from XHTML to HTML might not be such a good idea. XHTML has a (very slightly) different syntax then HTML and changing the DTD may have unforeseen consequences, although it will probably work for most browsers. In any case, your output will no longer be 'valid' as you will be using some incorrect syntax for HTML. See http://www.w3schools.com/XHTML/xhtml_html.asp for an overview of the difference between HTML and XHTML. I don't know anything about the SAX parser, but I agree with Colum that the only (and probably the best) way is to get the parser to work with XHTML. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Your test indicates that Robo doesn't add the alternative text for Word documents. I can't say for sure, but is seems that you'll have to add the alternative text yourself, if you output HTML Help or a Word/PDF document. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, This table works fine on my computer in IE8 and FF3.5. There is no style that prescribes the width, so the browers falls back to the default value of auto, unless it is defined differently. This is a source file, do you only have this problem with output files, or also with source files? The only thing is that your table is centered with a DIV element. What happens when you delete the DIV element and add 'margin-left: auto;' and 'margin-right: auto;' to the style element of the table tag? Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Can you post a HTML file with such a table? Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi Rick, You're correct, as always. I was strictly talking about webhelp. The webhelp output uses xhtml and the alt text is mandatory, since this is the WebHelp forum, I didn't consider the HTML Help. - When it's about CHM, listen to Rick Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Robo8 automatically sets the filename of the image as the alternate text when you create the output. If you manually want to set the alternate text: - Insert an image. - Select the image and go to HTML mode. - Add your alternate text in alt="", such as alt="alternate text". Using the Screen tip field will create a title field for a tooltip, not an alternate text. Note that images in XHTML always require an alternate text. Robo will set the alternate text, even if you don't have section 508 compliant output. Greet, Willam ... View more

I see, Try removing the bullit-type form OL,UL. Your styling requires that you use list item styles. You can set styles to the different levels of multi-level lists. Assign Li.1stLevel_Listing and Li.2ndLevel_Listing to the first and second level of your multi-level list, or define the list styles trough Robo's css editor. Greet, Willam ... View more

Eeeh, Are we talking about the same thing here? My post was about lists not styling the way they should. I think you are mistaken with another discussion. About your lists, I guess you're using the multi-level list styles in Robo8. According to your style sheet, all your lists should have the image smallbabyblue.jpg instead of numbers or bullits. See the code: OL, UL { <-- Applies to ordered lists and unordered lists font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 25px; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px; list-style: url(smallbabyblue.jpg); <-- lists will always use this image. When the image is not available the browsers will use the default: numbers for ordered lists and bullets for unordered lists. font-family: ; <-- empty, please remove } This styling isn't overwritten in any list item. I'd suggest adding list style information to your multi level lists. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, What you're experiencing is not a bug. It's the consequense of incorrect list use. As peter said, please attach a html file and your css so we can have a look at it. Also, we've discussed this problem at length, please search the RoboHelp forum so you'll get some more insight in what's causing this behaviour. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, You're method probably works fine, I don't know why it shouldn't. Just remember that you still have to set the text direction for the html files. You can do this per file, but you can also try to set it globally by editing the javascript. Add the following code to the style functions:   sStyle+="* {direction: rtl;}\n"; If you want to do it in het html files, you'll need to change the following files: TOC: whtdhtml.htm INDEX: whibody.htm and whiform.htm GLOS: whgdef.htm and whgbody.htm Search: whfform.htm and whfbody.htm Greet, Willam Message was edited by: W. van Weelden: filenames added ... View more

Hi, The glossary terms are hyperlinks. In your output, these styles are controlled in whgbody.htm and in whthost.htm. You can modify them by changing: setFont("Normal", "Microsoft Sans Serif","8pt","Black","Normal","Normal","none"); setFont("Hover", "Microsoft Sans Serif","8pt","Navy","Normal","Normal","underline"); Also, you can set it in CSS, but you'll have to use the !important statement to overwrite the inline styling set up with the scripts. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, We've discussed this quite a few times already, so search the forum for similar posts. You'll find a more comprehensive solution there. Here's a summary: Workaround/semi-solution: It's probably to do with the way you style the list. Just selecting a list from the drop down menu won't work anymore in RH8. Instead, First create a list, then select a style. In your style sheet, define a paragraph style and a corresponding list item style (p.paragrahp and li.p-paragraph). Set the list styling in the list class, not the paragraph class! Best solution: - Use list classes. Create different classes for different lists (ul.bullet, ol.alpha, etc). Apply list classes in html mode. - Define multi-level lists in robo8 and stick to those (some forum members will disagree with this advice though). If you have any questions after reading the other posts about faulty lists in Robo8, feel free to post back. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi again, This actually was a quick one. To set the indent correct, do the following: (No line numbers, since I use a modified whthost.js, line numbers won't match) 1. Open whthost.js and search for var gsMargin. 2. Set the required indent for the value of gsMargin, this will effect all TOC elements 3. Search for the TocWriteClassStyle 4. Locate .parent and change margin-left in margin-right. 5. Locate .stub and change margin-left in margin-right. 6. Locate .child and change margin-left in margin-right. 7. Save your file and place it in every output requiring a right sided toc. That's it, you should be ready to go. Just post if you need some more changes, I'm confident they'll be an easy fix. Greet, Willam PS.: the modified function TocWriteClassStyle: function TocWriteClassStyle() {     var sStyle="<STYLE TYPE='text/css'>\n";     if(gsBgImage)         sStyle+="body {border-top:"+gsBgColor+" 1px solid;}\n";     else         sStyle+="body {border-top:black 1px solid;}\n";     sStyle+="P {"+getFontStyle(goFont)+"margin-top:"+gsMargin+";margin-bottom:"+gsMargin+";}\n";     sStyle+="DIV {margin-top:"+gsMargin+";margin-bottom:"+gsMargin+";}\n";     sStyle+=".parent {margin-right:0pt;}\n";     sStyle+=".stub {margin-right:0pt;display:none}\n";     sStyle+=".child {display:none;margin-right:"+gsIndent+";}\n";     sStyle+="A:link {"+getFontStyle(goFont)+"}\n";     sStyle+="A:visited {"+getFontStyle(goFont)+"}\n";     sStyle+="A:active {background-color:"+gsABgColor+";}\n";     sStyle +="A:hover {"+getFontStyle(goHFont)+"}\n";     sStyle+="</STYLE>";     document.write(sStyle); } ... View more

Hi, I see, you've also wondered how to stop Robo from interfering with your css. I'm afraid that I can't tell you more than you already know. Assigning a third party editor to the specific topics probably is your best guess. You can also report this behaviour as a bug/feature request, whichever you find appropriate Greet, Willam PS. I just wonder how many people consider this behavior as a pain, I expect that most people don't worry about any of this. I can live with Robo's setbacks because it does a wonderful job at doing what it was meant for, although some better html and css support would be nice. That's why I use the feature request ... View more

Hi, Indeed, it's the same, only using css instead of html Guess I wasn't paying enough attention to your previous post, I thought you wanted to know how to change the text to RTL... I'm as good a reader as my users 😛 I'll look into it, but it may take some time. I thought that Robo uses div elemens to build the toc, but I'll have to look into this. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, I used your complete line 52, as I did not yet quite figure out what else needed changing except finding and replacing *,220 with 220,* and 0,* with *,0. That's why I included it . You set the order of the frames to place the topic left. You set the second frame to be displayed first. Next question How do I get ToC and Index to have indents RTL? For the TOC: open whtdhtml.htm and add the following code before the </head> tag: <style> * {direction:rtl;} </style> Add the same code in on the same place in whibody.htm for the index entries and in whiform for the index search box. Note: this changes the alignment from right to left, but it removes the standard indent of the toc... This is governed by whthost.js, but I'll have to look into that further.  An easier way is to play around with css, but that will also require some investigation. I'll try to get back on this a little sooner than the last time Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, 1. If you output WebHelp, use a search and replace in your output to change all <param name="ShowControls" value="0"  /> in <param name="ShowControls" value="1"  />. 2. You can try using the <embed> tag instead of the <object> tag. The embed element is not valid xhmtl and not all browsers may/will support it. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, I did a little digging and I found a solution. I did not test it thorougly in combination with context sensitive help, but I think it should work all the same. To get the navigation pane, index pane, search pane and glossary pane to the right, you have to edit whskin_frmset01.htm. In whskin_frmset01.htm, go to line 52. modify the line: Set the cols to *,220 instead of 220,*. Place the second frame before the first frame. The line will now be this: strHTML += "<frameset cols=\"*,220\" hostof=\"parent:minibar_navpane|topic!startpage:no\" frameborder=\"1\" id=\"whPfset\"><frame src=\""+strDefaultTopic+"\" id=\"topic\" frameborder=\"1\" border=\"1\" scrolling=\"auto\" title=\"Topic\" name=\"bsscright\"></frame><frame src=\"whskin_frmset010.htm\" id=\"minibar_navpane\" frameborder=\"0\" border=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\"></frame><frame src=\""+strDefaultTopic+"\" id=\"topic\" frameborder=\"1\" border=\"1\" scrolling=\"auto\" title=\"Topic\" name=\"bsscright\"></frame></frameset>"; Now go to line 87 and replace  220,* with *,220. This sets the initial width of the topic and the navigation pane. Last, go to line 114 and replace 0,* with *,0. This sets how thw panes are shown when you close the navpane. You're al set up with a right navpane. Save the file and copy it over every output where you need a right sided pane. Everything seems to work, but please test this extensively. Let me know if it works or in which case you're having problems. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, In theSkin editor, double click Search Input and select your custom button. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, I created a HTML help with Robo8 with the fixed style that works, so you can create it when your really, really, really want it. As far as I could find out, RoboHelp doesn't use xhtml transitional but html 4.01 frameset as the DTD. This means that IE (7 and 8) will work in quirks mode so it won't render your style correct. To correct this, I decompiled the HTML help file with Microsoft's HTML help workshop. Then I replaced the frameset doctype with the strict doctype and recompiled the project, and now it works. This is all manual labour and has the following complications:      - If you use framesets, you can't change their DTD, otherwise they'll break (or shoud break ;-), it's still Microsoft IE )      - You cannot use any form of inline styling in your project, you have to style everything by CSS. (This is the preferred way of working anyway...)+      - You'll need to rebuilt the hhp file for HTML help workshop, or come up with a workaround to use Robo's hhp. You can use it, but you don't want to use the source files. So yes, you can get it to work in HTML help, but no, you probably don't want this kind of workaround ;-). I don't know if there's any way to control the DTD on output, so any HTML help guru's out there, let me know. My advice, 1. stick with Webhelp 2. Abandon the idea of try Rick's suggestion. Greet, Willam PS: I added a working example but it may take some time before you can download it. ... View more

Hi, The styling of the popupspot is controlled trough the javascript and the function call. The popupspot class controls the hyperlink, not the popup. You can change the popup by right clicking on the hyperlink and choosing Text popup properties or editing the function itself (in ehlpdhtm.js). Depending on what you want, it may be easier to use the script that Leon pointed out. It'll be some more work that Robo's standard functions. Note that a text popup requires a user to click. You can set it to work on a hover, but I think that effect is rather annoying. Greet, Willam ... View more

I've seen a lot of dhtml tooltips, but this definitly is a good one. Thanks for sharing Leon. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, If you want to use a simple e-mail link, try creating a snippet/footer with the following text: <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2"> <!-- function feedback(){     var MailTitle=document.title;     return("mailto:your@email.com?SUBJECT="+MailTitle) } //--> </script> <p><a href="/feedback/" onClick="javascript:this.href=feedback();">Feedback</a></p> This will sent the e-mail with the title of the page as subject. It might not be the prettiest solution, but it's quick and easy to create. Note that this is HTML (Robo7) syntax. If you use Robo8, change onClick to lowercase. If you want a better function, I suggest you examine the possibility of creating a small form where users only have to enter their name/company and their remarks. Add other info like topic filename and title in hidden fields using javascript. Just google for this, there's lots of info around for these kinds of tricks.You will have to get creative 😉 Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Did only your custom layouts disappear, or all layouts, inluding the Robo standard layouts? If all your layouts are gone, it might be your xpj, but since you remade it, it's probably not in that. About your custom layouts, the layouts from your projects are stored in rhlayout.apj. This is basically a xml file, so you should be able to add the layouts manually with a editor like notepad. (Backup your files though, I've never tried this with layouts.) The conditional build tags are stored in rhbuildtag.apj. This is also a kind of xml file and I copy this file between projects to keep the build tags the same. If you have a copy of the file, just paste it over the file in your project. You can also add build tags manually with a editor. Hope this helps. Greet, Willam ... View more