Modify default DHTML drop-down appearance in RH9

[Guest]

I do not use any background shading in my main topic windows but I would like the DHTML dropdowns to have background shading. Is there a way to do this in RH9, please?  Thank you.

[RoboColum_n_ · Accepted solution]

Are you talking about the DHTML Hotspot itself or the text within it. If you are referring to the hotspot, you can add a highlight colour to the Drop Down Hotspot style in our .CSS file. If you are referring to the actual drop down text, one way to achieve this is to create a new style with the required highlight and to apply this to the text inside the drop down.

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Colum McAndrew

[Guest]

Yes, referring to the background colour of the drop down text. Thanks for the suggestion - - will try creating a special style for that.

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[Guest]

Thank you for a suggestion worth trying, but I find this not quite suitable because it highlights the text but not the background, leaving bands of colour rather than a solid shading.

I may need to use separate pop-up topics rather than drop-downs in order to get a clear visual separation between the content of the pop-up/drop-down and the main page that it sits in.

Michael West

[Captiv8r]

Hi Michael

See if this little Jing video I recorded moments ago helps.

Click here to view

Cheers... Rick

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[Guest]

Superb! I wouldn't have thought to try that style edit method. And the little trick of indentation is excellent too -- it might even be sufficient, in a short drop-down, to help the users distinguish where the drop-down ends and the regular topic text begins.

Where I have a lot of content packed into a dropdown, indentation is not really practical, but the style tweak you've shown me will do the job.

Many thanks.

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Michael West

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