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LOL, I did have a hunch 
Give me some time to think about this.
Greet,
Willam
Hi again,
there is a showHidePane(bShow). Is this the function I need to edit? I tried editing this function and RoboHelp didn't like it.
That's the one. bShow is only a parameter and I never use those when pointing to a function. How does RoboHelp not like it? Did it break your output? I tested this and it worked for me. If you like, you can send me your test project and I'll amend it for you.
- In your last message you suggest I replace the showHidePane() function in whthost.js with the showHidePane(bShow) example in your message. However, the showHidePane() function doesn't exist
Sorry about that, it whtopic.js 
Guess it's friday.
I created an example script for you that lets you insert 'show/hide' links and buttons in a topic. This was more of a challenge than I thought.
- You want to disable 'show navigation pane links in topics' as this script duplicates the behaviour.
- You need to disable the close navigation button in the minibar. Do this by removing the line addButton("hide2",BTN_TEXT|BTN_IMG,"","","","","",0,0,"close.gif","","","close.gif","",""); from whskin_mbars.htm.
Add the following script to all your pages by adding it to whtopic.js or in a master page or so. Note: This includes the function GetTopicPane(). You can ignore that function because you already added that to whutils.js.
The script:
var showpanemsg = "Show navigation";
var hidepanemsg = "Hide navigation";
var showhidelinkid = "showhidepanecontrol";
function addShowHidePaneLinks() {
var clickevent;
var label;
if(isnavpanevisible()) {
label = hidepanemsg;
} else {
label = showpanemsg;
}
//Create link
var link = '<a href="javascript:void(0);" id="'+showhidelinkid+'" onclick ="showhidepaneamended()" />'+label+'</a>';
document.write(link);//Write link
setCorrectWidth();//Set topic to the correct width
}
function showhidepaneamended() {
if(isTopicOnly())
show();
else
showHidePane(!isnavpanevisible());
setCorrectWidth();
amendshowhidelink();
}
function amendshowhidelink() {
var link = document.getElementById(showhidelinkid);
if (isTopicOnly()) {
if(gbIE) {
link.click = 'show()';
} else
link.setAttribute('click', 'show()');
link.innerHTML = hidepanemsg;
}
else if (isnavpanevisible()) {
link.innerHTML = hidepanemsg;
} else {
link.innerHTML = showpanemsg;
}
}
function isnavpanevisible() {
if(isTopicOnly())
return false;
if(gbIE) {
var splitterwidth = 6;
var browserwidth = top.document.body.offsetWidth;
var topicwidth = document.body.offsetWidth;
if(browserwidth-topicwidth == 0 || browserwidth-topicwidth == splitterwidth)
var navpanewidth = 0;
else
var navpanewidth = 1;
} else {
var navpanewidth = parent.frames[0].document.body.clientWidth;
}
if(navpanewidth == 0)
return false;
else
return true;
}
function setCorrectWidth() {//Set correct width of the topic
var sWidth;
if(isTopicOnly()) {
sWidth = "1000px";
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].style.maxWidth = sWidth;
}
else {
if(isnavpanevisible()) {
sWidth = "1000px";
} else {
sWidth = "700px";
}
GetTopicPane().document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].style.maxWidth = sWidth;
}
}
function GetTopicPane() {//Get the topic pane
var topicPane;
if (top.frames[0].name == "ContentFrame")
topicPane = top.frames[0].frames[1].frames[1];
else
topicPane = top.frames[1].frames[1];
topicPane.focus();
return topicPane;
}
Now, in your topic, add the following script: addShowHidePaneLinks(); This will write the correct link in your topic at the place you inserted the function.
That's it. If you add addShowHidePaneLinks(); to your masterpage, all the topics will have the links.
Greet,
Willam
Perhaps 
You did generate your output again after adding the script to the master page? And you did place the modified files in your output?:
First, make a backup of all the files in your output that you modified. If I recall correctly, these would be whtopic.js, whtbar.js and whutils.js. Copy them to a safe location for reuse.Then generate your output. Place the modified files into your output and test it again. That does the trick on my pc, even for IE.
If it still doesn't work, I'd like to know how you added the script to your masterpage. Perhaps something went wrong there.
Greet,
Willam
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