RH11-How do I change a DOCTYPE across a project?

Report · Nov 17, 2014

I'm using RH11, and my employer wants to publish our software for our December 1 release in about 50% WebHelp and 50% .CHM format. They said that they are having issues with the .chm format files having compatibility on/compatibility off with different versions of IE that our customers are using, where customers will get a "Compatibility View Settings" window depending on whether they have that on or off. Because of that, they want me to change the beginning of each HTML file from this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

to this: <!DOCTYPE HTML>

Is there a fast way to do this? One of my pieces of software has 448 HTML topics!

I tried search and replace, but that did not work. They want this done regardless of whether the end release will be HTML or .chm.

Thanks!

Report · Nov 17, 2014

Find in Files should work. I tried copying the line in a test project and Find and Replace found it across all my topics.

Make sure you have the following setup:

Look in: <current project>

Files of type: Text file types (*.htm ; *.html; *.txt)

x Include Subfolders.

Or possibly you have line breaks inside your doctype tag in which case you could try this - take a backup of your projects and test it on a single file first!

Find what: (\<\!doctype html(/?[^\>]+)\>)

Replace with: <!doctype html>

Look in: *same as above

Files of type: * same as above

x Use: Regular Expressions

x Include Subfolders.

HTH,

Amber

P.S. I just realised maybe you are accessing the wrong search and replace.

Edit > Replace (Ctrl+H) only searches in the current topic.

Edit > Find and Replace in Files (Ctrl+Shift+F) searches across all files in a project or a select directory/folder

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RH11-How do I change a DOCTYPE across a project?