Drop down text options

I'm looking for feedback on other options for displaying drop
down text. I'm getting feedback from my users that they don't
understand that green italic text (or what ever format is used)
assumes drop down text. Most people are now used to seeing collapse
and expand icons to represent drop down information. I have used
the twisties in some of my projects but in this specific case, i am
using the Show/Hide All script and there appears to be a conflict
with the 2 scripts.
I'm just curious if there are other methods used to represent
or display that an item on the page is a drop down link, other than
expand or collapse icons.

Are you talking about the twisty / show hide methods on my
site? If so please see the introductory topic that refers to a
script that does allow both to work together.

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I just tested a three topic project with a snippet in each topic. The topics were in different folder levels.
It works OK so first try again with a new project.
Let us know whether or not that works.
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I'm going through all the topics in a large RH10 project manually checking various things. A lot of topics contain drop-down text and to view the contents, I'm having to right click on each one and select 'Drop-down text properties'. Which is taking FOREVER. So:
a) is there an option to expand all drop-down text in the current topic? I'm sure I remember this from a previous version but can't find it now.
b) is there a keyboard shortcut to open drop-down text?
Please say yes.

a] Yes.
b] No.
There is nothing in Rh but there is a method on my site and on htttp://wvanweelden.eu The same scripts, just different explanations.
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I'd like to include drop-down text in my printed
documentation, but I'm having problems making it work. I have lots
of i-frames in my Webhelp project and, for some reason, they all
seem to have carriage returns in them. When I turn on the "include
drop-down text" in my printed doc options, these carriage returns
wreak havoc on my formatting.
I've tried removing them from the TrueCode, but they just
re-generate. I've also thought about writing a macro in Word to
remove them, but I can't think of a way to ensure it is consisent.
And, I have numerous long documents that will be generated from
this project, so it is not feasible to remove them manually.
I'd really like to use the drop-down text functionality for
my printed docs. Short of turning of the drop-down text, using
conditional tags, and duplicating text , I don't know how. Any
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1.        Make sure your RoboHelp project is not opened.
2.        Open up the default.css style sheet for your project in Notepad.
3.        Search for the following text:
P.Numbered-List {
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   text-indent: -;
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4.        Replace with the following text:
/*P.Numbered-List {
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5.        Search for the following text:
P.Bulleted-List {
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6.        Replace with the following text:
/*P.Bulleted-List {
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   margin-left: -6pt;
7.        Open up your RoboHelp Project
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10.     Replace with: <li class="Bulleted-List"><p>
11.     Now do another search and replace.
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Image as drop-down text link -- image doesn't appear

(Using Robohelp X5)
Wondering if anybody has had anything like this happen before
and can explain it for me???
First line of topic is type <h1>. At the end of the
line I have an icon that is a link to drop-down text.
Here's where it gets weird. I compiled the help and displayed
the .chm. Looked at the topic, the image doesn't appear, but is
clickable (and works properly). Used the 'print' option from the
.chm to print to .pdf. The image appears in the .pdf.
Looked at the code, can't see anything wrong with it.
Back in the wysiwyg editor, selected the last character of
normal text plus the clickable icon, copied and pasted in place (so
now have
<text2><dropdown2><text><dropdown>)
Removed <text><dropdown> (the original content),
edited the code to use the proper 'name' attribute (because it was
modified on the paste), recompiled, ran the .chm, everything
displays properly (the image is there).
Note: I was having similar problems with it earlier, think I
fixed it the same way, and everything was okay for a few compiles,
then started having the problems again.
At this point, as far as I can see, the .html is the *same*
as it was before, but now the image appears in the .chm. Colour me
totally confused :-)
Anybody have any insights as to why this could be happening?
Thanks!

Change what you have now:
a:link {
    color: #4E8E98;
    text-decoration: none;
a:visited {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #4E8E98;
a:hover {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: black;
a.dark:active {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #FFF;
a.light:link {
    color: #DCDBE1;
    text-decoration: none;
a.light:visited {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #DCDBE1;
a.light:hover {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #776153;
a.light:active {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #FFF;
a.dark:link {
    color: #4E8E98;
    text-decoration: none;
a.dark:visited {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #4E8E98;
a.dark:hover {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: black;
a.dark:active {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #FFF;
To this:
/**MAIN LINKS**/
a {text-decoration: none}
a:link { color: #4E8E98;}
a:visited {color: #4E8E98;}
a:hover { color: #000;}
a:active, a:focus {color: #FFF;}
/**SPECIAL LINKS**/
.light a:link {color: #DCDBE1;}
.light a:visited {color: #DCDBE1;}
.light a:hover {color: #776153;}
Nancy O.
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Drop-down text disappears

Hi again all
We are finding it impossible to get drop-down text to appear in Robohelp, using TC4.
*BTW We have linked the RH and FM files, not imported )
In Framemaker, I select the text I want as the drop-down heading, and select Dynamic HTML effects>DropDownCaption (this applies the DropDownCaption style to it.)
I do the equivalent with the drop down text.
I then go to RH, do an Update all, and sure enough, the drop-down text is not visible, except when I hover over the DDcaption, and it does show up as DDtext.
However, when I compile, I get only the DDcaption, and instead of it being selectable, and having text associated with it, nothing at all. It just appears like normal text.
I CAN create dropdowns within RH itself but these then disappear when I update the FM files.
I've looked at the other messages within this group relating to this, but none of them seem to really help. I have tried different sizes of drop down text, with single/multiple styles - to no avail.
Please help if you can - I really need to get this to work as we are still evaluating Adobe vs Flare - and I'd really rather use Adobe!
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Do you mean a drop down menu where the viewer makes a selection or a text box that the viewer can add text to? If it the menu type Google from Drop Down Menu and you'll find a number of sites with the code you can use to add to a Web Widget HTML Snippet. Haven't found any sites for a box you can write into.
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I'm created topics currently that have drop down text effects in them.
Basically, I have a title which has got a little image next to it (a plus expand sign image).
When you click either the image of the title text, the drop down text appears as intended.
Is there anyway I can get it, so that when you click either the text or the image, the image changes to be a minimise image?
The screenshots below demonstrate what I mean a bit clearer.
Thanks very much,
Craig

Hi Craig
All I can say is that the script or whatever simply isn't finding the image if you are viewing from the compiled CHM. When you compile, you need to ensure that everything is in the place it needs to be. For example, maybe you have a folder in your project and you added the image to the folder. But in reality, it's looking for the image in the project root. Because the image is in the folder, it cannot be found.
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Can bullets in a drop-down text box be different than the bullet of the item it is describing. In RoboHelp 9, the bullets take on the formatting of the original item even though I have them formatted differently.
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I start with this list:
When I create the drop-down text and format the bullets within this text for item "Line 1", they look like this.
When I view the selected item and/or when I generate and view it, I get the following result.
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This shows the list item with an inserted image as the bullet and in Normal format.
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Drop-Downs text is wiped out

RH X 5, webhelp layout
To retreive topics that were deleted from a project, I've
imported the corresponding output (htm) files. Aside from the red
boxes (java script), the topic looks fine only the the text on the
drop-down hotspots has been cleared out.
Is there a way to avoid this from happening? Is there a way
to restore the drop-down text?

I don't mean to be a pest, I just want to determine if the
steps I've taken & the results I'm getting are what they should
be.
I imported the htm files that were on the server, but the
data in the drop-downs was cleared out. If I understand correctly,
ithis s how it should be, but I'm confused because you say that I
can import the htm files without cleanup. Does that mean there's a
way to avoid having to re-establish the drop-downs? or maybe the
import feature isn't working like it should?
FYI - this morning I received "proj corrrupt" msg that I
can't seem to get passed even by deleting the cpd & xpj files,
so I'm going to have RH re-installed.
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Thank you in advance for any replies!
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Sure it is. And Nancy has given you a good alternative as well.
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I have a query regarding the menu option that is displayed by default in a flavor that we create (beside the field to launch tcodes).
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Mahip Singh Saluja.

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