the drop down text style is not listed in the styles pane in RoboHelp 8?

[Guest]

I want to change the background color used in my RH7 projects but cannot find the drop down text style?  Only the drop down hotspot style is listed.

[Amebr]

Are you having problems in RH7 or RH8? Your title says RH8, but the description is RH7?

In RH7, when I select Format > Styles, opening the "Other" category displays 'expanding text' and 'expanding link' entries, among others. I don't have a copy of RH8 at the moment, but from memory you have to make a selection in the drop-down list at the top of the pod to view the RH8 equivalent of "Other" - I can't remember if it has a different name.

HTH

Amber

[Peter Grainge]

It looks like Adobe missed the body tag in RoboHelp 8. You can always open the CSS in Notepad or a CSS editor and edit it manually there.

HEX COLOUR VALUES

BODY {
   background-color: #ffffff;
}

RGB COLOUR VALUES

or

BODY {
   background-color: rgb(176, 224, 230);
}

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@petergrainge

[Guest]

Thank You for the quick response.  I searched everywhere for it .....

[Captiv8r]

Sooo, some clarification here.

Not trying to detract from Peter's fine observation, but are you wanting to generically change the background color of every page using the CSS? If so, why does your title say "drop-down" text style?

If I click Format > Styles and see the Styles pod, I have to click and choose All available styles and scroll the list in order to see the Drop-down hotspot style.

Cheers... Rick

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[Captiv8r]

Duh... my bad

I see now that you already found the style and you are wanting to get at the text that appears. Sorry about that.

Must... Drink... Coffee....

Cheers... Rick

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[Guest]

Thanks....

The drop down hotspot style is still there. It's the drop-down text style that is missing. Thanks anyway for the quick reply

Marie P Affa

Manager - Technical Publications

Netsmart Technologies

(631) 968-2037

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

There is no dropdown text style. A dropdown adds a div element to your page that you can show or hide. Inside this, you can use anything you want: paragraphs, lists, tables, etc.

You can style the dropdown and all text, but you need to think what you want to style. Do you only want to style text in paragraphs or do you want the entire hotspot to have a certain background colour? By editing your css in an external editor, you can accomplish anything you want.

For instance, to give all dropdowns a blue background, add:

div.droptext { background-color: blue; }

to your style sheet. (This affects all dropdowns!) To only give the paragraphs inside dropdowns a blue background, add:

div.droptext p {background-color: blue;}

to your style sheet.

Please tell exactly what you need, so we can come up with something.

Greet,

Willam

[Guest]

Thank you so much for providing two points of learning. #1 - by opening the css sheet I gained an understanding of the code behind the styles; (I am not familiar with html code); and #2 With yours and Peter G's instructions I was able to change the background color of my drop down text.

Marie P Affa

Manager - Technical Publications

Netsmart Technologies

(631) 968-2037

[Peter Grainge]

If you Google for Top Style 3 you can still download the free version where the limitation is one CSS file at a time. You can always open another one in Notepad to edit it.

It is a great tool for working on a CSS file.

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