Editing HTML source outside of Robohelp

If I were to edit my RoboHelp source HTML files outside of RoboHelp, what does the community recommend? Notepad? Wordpad? Word? If you want to know why, my boss does not want to pay for another RoboHelp license.

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Notepad or any text editor is fine. Presumably you will then copy the files back to a machine with Rh to update the output and searches etc. Do not use Wordpad or Word.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

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I just noticed something;
When I bring in and edit my HTML source document, my server behaviour goes back to Coldfusion and the record set and record insertion is missing.
I have to Click and add it back to the panel. Is this normal ?
Thanks

Hi Murray,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I had to deal with an idiotic poster, each time I try to reply I get the same message from the poster about his facebook account. I have reported it and phone your company - Adobe to resolved this. His post has been deleted from the system and hopefully I am back and able to attend to your replies.
I have moved on and recreated my pages from scratch. I have taken into consideration all your discussion with me and I only have one document. It is named and with an extension of PHP.
I am at a point where I have no errors and found a Dreameaver bug in your Insert>Data> Insert Record option. The form action is written in Captials. As you have pointed out it should be in lower case, so did the validator. So I have recognised this whlist recreating it from scratch.
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I hope you dont mind, I appreciate your previous 2 post before this reply. Hence, here we are.
Source code.
Why does it not write to the database table?
Please advice.
<?php require_once('Connections/dbAttendance.php'); ?>
<?php
if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "")
if (PHP_VERSION < 6) {
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$theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ? mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) : mysql_escape_string($theValue);
switch ($theType) {
    case "text":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "long":
    case "int":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "double":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? doubleval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "date":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "defined":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue;
      break;
return $theValue;
$editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
$editFormAction .= "?" . htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
if ((isset($_POST["MM_insert"])) && ($_POST["MM_insert"] == "form")) {
$insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO attendlist (Windowsid, title, firstname, surname, extension, mobile, jobrole, course, cpg, mgrname, room) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)",
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                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['select'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['textfield2'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['textfield3'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['textfield4'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['textfield5'], "text"),
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                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['select2'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['select4'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['textfield7'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['select3'], "text"));
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$Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $dbAttendance) or die(mysql_error());
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if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
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header(sprintf("Location: %s", $insertGoTo));
mysql_select_db($database_dbAttendance, $dbAttendance);
$query_rsAttendance = "SELECT * FROM attendlist";
$rsAttendance = mysql_query($query_rsAttendance, $dbAttendance) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rsAttendance = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsAttendance);
$totalRows_rsAttendance = mysql_num_rows($rsAttendance);
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Delegate Register</title>
<link href="Registerpage.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryValidationTextField.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryValidationSelect.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryValidationTextField.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryValidationSelect.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="header"><img src="Cerner At Imperial2.jpg" width="960" height="150" alt="" /></div>
<div class="content">
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          <td><span id="sprytextfield1">
            <input name="textfield" type="text" id="textfield" tabindex="1" size="18" maxlength="10" />
          <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span></td>
          <td> </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
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              <option value="2">Mrs</option>
              <option value="3">Mdm</option>
              <option value="4">Dr</option>
              <option value="5">Mr</option>
              <option value="6">Prof</option>
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          <td> </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><div align="right">First name*</div></td>
          <td><span id="sprytextfield2">
            <input name="textfield2" type="text" id="textfield2" tabindex="3" size="30" maxlength="30" />
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        <tr>
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          <td><span id="sprytextfield3">
            <input name="textfield3" type="text" id="textfield3" tabindex="4" size="30" maxlength="30" />
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          <td> </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><div align="right">Contact / Bleep *</div></td>
          <td><span id="sprytextfield4">
            <input name="textfield4" type="text" id="textfield4" tabindex="5" size="30" maxlength="30" />
          <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span></td>
          <td> </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><div align="right">Mobile no: (optional)</div></td>
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          <td> </td>
        </tr>
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          <td> </td>
          <td> </td>
        </tr>
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          <td> </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td> </td>
          <td> </td>
          <td> </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td> </td>
          <td> </td>
          <td> </td>
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              <option value="4">Nurse OP</option>
              <option value="5">Midwife</option>
              <option value="6">Booking Clerk</option>
              <option value="7">Medical Secretary</option>
              <option value="8">OP Receptionist</option>
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          <span class="selectRequiredMsg">Please select an item.</span></span></td>
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<div class="footer">
</div>
</div>
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var spryselect1 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationSelect("spryselect1", {validateOn:["change", "blur"]});
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mysql_free_result($rsAttendance);
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PDF outputs continually crash after editing an html source file

I have English and multiple localized versions of a RoboHelp webhelp project. I have created several PDF outputs for the localized versions. I can generate the PDFs fine when I don't touch any of the html source files.
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I hate to say it but it sounds like something you are doing in the external editor is not liked by RoboHelp.
It could just be the way that text editor codes the file. I use EditPad Pro and that has various options for text encoding. My guess is your editor is not set to what RoboHelp expects.
Aftr that what I would do here is create a new one topic project and recreate the problem, with the minimum of text. It may help you spot the code RoboHelp does not like.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

Are we allowed to use the Web developer function in Firefox version 5.0 to edit the html source code associated with the Firefox home page?

Locking at request of OP - https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/844506
Are we allowed to use the Web developer function, under the "Firefox" tab in Firefox version 5.0, to edit the html source code associated with the Firefox version 5.0 home page ( so that we can personalize the home page )? Is this legal?
Sincerely in Christ,
Russell E. Willis

Solution: (Free Download Manager)
Go here: http://codecpack.co/download/Free_Download_Manager.html and download Free Download Manager 3.8.1067 Beta 3, it works perfectly with Firefox 5.0.1
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The RoboSource Control in X5 was "adequate" in its day. But
remember, that was nearly 4 years ago
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really robust enough and to really make use of it, you need to use
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That was then. This is now. The RoboSource Control 3 that
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This is because, it allows you to use a free version of MS
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only two of you. Since you already have it, you could create a
little test bed project and try it out. (I have a suggestion for
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I'm using: RoboHelp HTML, Version 10.0.1.292
I'm seeing the following message when I make changes within the RoboHelp project and then choose to close my project without saving the changes. It's not consistent behavior - it happens for some help files in the project but not all help files. If I save changes then it doesn't appear.
My steps:
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2 - Choose File > Close Project.
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This is when I see the message above. The message is confusing for several reasons: 1) I didn't edit the file outside the project, 2) I'm not sure what changes are being discarded if I click Yes, and 3) what's being loaded when I am closing the project.
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Message was edited by: Tricia Trujillo

Maybe with a copy of the project, try deleting the CPD file and then seeing if the offending topic still shows in Project Manager.
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See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

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If your target html is so fancy and complicated(table cell contain another table) or the table miss some <tr> or <td> tags, dividing the table into rows and column can be a difficult task.
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http://httpunit.sourceforge.net/
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the way it displays is either all jumbled and overlapping, or spread out over impossible distances. sadly i cannot post a picture.
we also have a G3 and a G4 in the house, both running 10.3, and they also have the same issue with plain text.
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Tom, very kindly, has got me most of the way to a happy ending.
one or another font file or cache was causing the problem. i removed all fonts from Home/Library/Fonts, then ran FontFinagler, rebooted, and things display correctly.
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macbook pro 2.33 3GB

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HEllo friends!
I need your help, for editing html in editorpane.
I want to create a textarea in which the user type simple text than select some part of it & makes it bold, italic etc. by using an event of button or popup any thing.
So guide me that which textcomponent provide this , i already used JEditorPane, and insert tags manually but it is not good, if i try to overlap the tags og italic & bold.
So please help me is this any way pre built to provide these func. of add html tags in jeditorpane & use see the render html test in area.
than please provide me. at [email protected]
Thanks
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
import javax .swing.border.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.IOException;
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Panel p1 = new Panel();
JButton b1 = new JButton("BOLD");
JButton b2 = new JButton("ITALIC");
BorderLayout borderLayout1 = new BorderLayout();
JScrollPane jScrollPane1 = new JScrollPane();
JEditorPane jEditorPane1 = new JEditorPane();
HTMLEditorKit editorKit = new HTMLEditorKit();
DefaultEditorKit defaultKit = new DefaultEditorKit();
public TestJEditor() {
super("Note");
this.getContentPane().add(p1);
//jEditorPane1.setEditable(false);
jEditorPane1.setEditorKit(editorKit);
p1.setLayout(null);
p1.add(jScrollPane1);
jScrollPane1.setBounds(10, 10, 350, 100);
jScrollPane1.getViewport().add(jEditorPane1, null);
b1.setBounds(370, 10, 100, 20);
p1.add(b1);
b2.setBounds(370, 40, 100, 20);
p1.add(b2);
b1.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
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     if(temp.indexOf("<B>") != 0)
     int start = str.indexOf(temp);
     int end = start + temp.length();
     System.out.println("start "+start+" end "+end);
     str = str.substring(0,start)+"<B>"+str.substring(start,end)+"</B>"+str.substring(end);
     jEditorPane1.setText(str);
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b2.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
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     System.out.println(str);
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System.exit(0);
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Hi kashif10,
JEditorPane or JTextPane are the classes to use. You can have both bold and italic for a text portion.
See http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/ for an overview of articles covering the swing text package.
Or try application SimplyHTML at http://www.lightdev.com/template.php4?id=3 it is open source and has a lot of documentation too.
Ulrich

Characters missing in HTML source

In ApEx 3.0.0.00.20 on Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Prod I have problems viewing the HTML pages in frontend. I miss some characters in the HTML source. The contents displayed are loaded from the database where they are saved correctly. When reloading the page, the errors appear randomly in other places in the source.
Example:
<b>(Textb></b>
instead of
<b>(Text)</b>
The missing characters are not accpetable if buttons do not appear or processes do not run. The appilcation also runs on another instance without those bugs so this is not an application error.
What I would like to know is if someone else ever had the same problem and if it is a performance error or if the error is found in the database or in the ApEx installation.
Thanks in forward for your replies,
Patrick
Edited by: Pennypacker on Sep 16, 2009 11:00 AM
Edited by: Pennypacker on Sep 16, 2009 11:01 AM
Edited by: Pennypacker on Sep 16, 2009 11:02 AM

Sorry for my bad example, this might confuse because I cannot add HTML tags here. The problem is not that the text is bold or not. I try to give more examples to make the problem clear.
Example 1:
input type="radio" name="f15" value="1" />1
The < character is missing in front of the line, so no radio button is displayed and the HTML source code is shown as text in the browser.
Example 2:
Shown Text: zu helfennd einige Fragen zu beantworten
Text in Database: zu helfen und einige Fragen zu beantworten
+2 Characters missing+
In the example above I meant that also the '<' character was missing and the bold-tag was not closed so that all text was shown bold.
So the HTML code is not generated correctly by ApEx and randomly 1 or 2 characters are missing which makes the site unuseable. Any ideas?

Editing HTML file leaves temporary files lying about the place

G'day
CFB 2.0.1, installed as stand-alone on Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit. Although this has been the case since CFB 1.0, and on various Windows installs.
Whenever I edit a HTML file (ie: with a .html extension), CFB creates a temporary file in the same dir, eg: .tmp_charts.html.33659~ (the original file name is charts.html). I've no problem with this - other than the fact it should not be necessary - but what I do have a problem with is that it does not tidy up after itself once it's done: the tmp files stay there. This is a bit sloppy.
I'm sure (100% sure) I've raised with this with Adobe in the past, and raised a bug for it, but it's not on the bug tracker for some reason.
Can other CFB users test out what happens when they edit HTML files with CFB? Note: the tmp file does not show up in the navigator listing within CFB, but it is there in the file system if one looks with Windows Explorer.
I'm going to raise a bug again (done: 3328624), in the hope this can be fixed. It's a minor thing, but I'm sick of accidentally committing rubbish to my source control because I forget CFB can't tidy up after itself.
Cheers.
Adam

Curious.
Still: they should just not be there in the first place. They don't appear for any other file type that I am aware of.
Agreed!
Come to think of it, I had another issue with CFB leaving bits around a while back. Ahhh, now I can't remember exactly what the issue was. I remember it had to do with mapping a networked drive. When I would map a particular drive letter, say 'W', then start CFB it would create an entire folder hierarchy on there seemingly from a different server. I know this because we have two different CF environments here; some server are running CF under JRun and others are running CF under WebSphere. I only noticed this issue because I had mapped one of our JRun servers and all of a sudden it had portions of the WebSphere directory structure on there. I think it had to do with a workspace in CFB but can't remember for sure. I fixed it a while back by removing the offending setting in CFB. Man, wish I could remember exactly what it was...

How to get the HTML Source code from the active browser ?

Hi All,
I need to get the HTML Source code from the active browser (IE). I tried with the below code, but I am not able to get the Source code all the time, with respect to the different applications (http or https) and the user authentication has to be changes in few applications (_I dont know or not able to given that in the below code_). More over there is also a dependence of the URL to get the HTML Source code.
Therefore what I feel is getting the HTML Source code from the given or active browser will be consistent than the URL. Since the Source code is available in the browser (IE) . Please help me with a sample code to achieve this . . . !
HTMLDocument doc=(HTMLDocument) kit.createDefaultDocument();
doc.putProperty("IgnoreCharsetDirective", Boolean.TRUE);
URL url = new URL(strURL);
Reader HTMLReader = new InputStreamReader(url.openConnection().getInputStream());
kit.read(HTMLReader, doc, 0);Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Jothi Venkatachalam
Edited by: j0o on May 7, 2009 3:11 AM

The simple answer is: you don't.
Not only is it simply not possible, but the entire concept of "the active browser" doesn't exist.
You were on the right track with your code to retrieve the page directly from the server, but as you noticed that code will only work for regular http connections.
For https and other protocols you will need to use appropriate libraries for each protocol. Something like Apache Commons can help you with that. There are networking libraries in there for a lot of commonly used protocols.

View the html source code of an apex page

Hi everyone,
I search to how I can view the html source code of an apex page and to be able to modify it. That's why viewing the html source code from the browser when the application is running doesn't arrange me.
Has anyone an idea how it can this be possible?
Best regards,

Khadija Khalfallah wrote:
Hi everyone,
I search to how I can view the html source code of an apex page and to be able to modify it. That's why viewing the html source code from the browser when the application is running doesn't arrange me. What do you mean?
Do you want to be able to pull up the HTML source generated by Apex, modify that copy, and then feed it back into Apex with the chagnes you made? If so you can't. Apex generates the HTML through its tools and you have to modify the generation routines to get different HTML.
Do you merely want to look at the generated HTML? In Internet Explorer all you have to do is right click on the page and choose View Source to open a window with the HTML source in an editor. I sometimes find it useful to save a page and manually edit the copy to immediately see the effects of certain changes to the underlying HTML and/or Javascript without permanantly making the change in Apex.

Why can't I edit the source code?

Updating an existing site that was created in Front Page. Am using DW CS4. Must be missing something totally obvious, but when I have pages open in split view, I'm unable to edit the source code. Any thoughts? I can make changes to the CSS, but direct editing in the source code seems to be unavailable.

> Is it because I didn¹t download the site through DW, that I can¹t edit the source
code?
No. HTML is HTML no matter who writes it.
This page is definitely a template controlled page, but it is one that has been 'hacked' in the sense that someone has removed the link to the template page from the head of this document (there should be a link to the template page just below the <html> tag). For example, if you look at the code on the about.htm page, you will see this -
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head>
And by the way, I will say that this looks suspiciously like a DW page not a FrontPage page....
What edits are you wanting to make to this page?

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