WebHelp Search Highlighting Revisited (RH7)

[Hey__Steve]

I like RH7's built-in search highlighting feature, particularly after applying Adobe's update to 7.02.001 (see P. Grainge's item 32 under Using RoboHelp 7, the fix/replacement for whtopic.js). However, I swear that my current project is behaving differently from my initial trial using RH7 demo (with the fix, using IE v6). Perhaps I hadn't noticed it before, but the entire phrase or sentence or paragraph (this varies) containing each found and highlighted word is displayed bolded!

Was this intended? Has anyone else noticed this? Did I unknowingly toggle some setting or corrupt a style? It's quite distracting and my customer doesn't like it. I did verify that the whtopic.js file in the generated WebHelp files collection does contain the fix.

I thought it might be related to whether the found word (or any other in the surrounding original text) was bolded, but this happens in paragraphs even where I have not used any bolding. I'm puzzled -- or is this a "feature"?

Thanks as always to this helpful and responsive community!
Steve Peterson

[Steve_Peterson · Accepted solution]

Aha! Persistence pays off. I found and removed "font-weight: bold;" and "font-style: normal" from the definition of style "span" in my master style sheet, leaving "span"'s definition empty. RH7's Format / Styles editor window now shows "span + " as the definition of "span" under Character.

The highlighting feature now works as it should, simply highlighting the found item(s) as formatted. Starting to get the hang of Styles, I guess...

Cheers!
Steve

[Peter Grainge]

New files were posted yesterday. You might want to try those as they fix a few more things.

[Alan_Davidson]

I'm reposting this message because I didn't get a reply to my previous post from a couple of months ago. My previous post was to a different but similar thread.

-Al Davidson

I'm having a similar problem, but in my case entire words are missing when I enable the Highlight toggle. I updated my version of RoboHelp to the latest version and also installed the JS file that Peter provided. I have attached an example of the problem I'm talking about.

Any ideas as to what's going on here? And thanks for any help.

-Al

[Peter Grainge]

You have posted the code as the end user sees it.

Please also post the HTML code behind those snippets. Maybe that will give a clue.

[Alan_Davidson]

The XML code sample is inside a table, so I'll precede the XML code sample with the HTML definitions for the table, row, and cell that contains the sample. I'll separate the table definition stuff from the XML code sample with an ellipses because there is a lot of other stuff in between.