Master Pages: how to achieve more advanced layouts?

I've wrapped my head around Master Pages in the past few weeks, but now that I'm trying to get more advanced with layout options, my goals seem to beyond any resources I can find to give me guidance. What I want to achieve is pretty simple. I'm trying to benchmark some of the design that I like from Adobe Help. Here are four things I want to achieve, with the following link as a visual reference:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/robohelp/robohtml/WS0165E923-AD7A-4695-85C8-C6E7AB841171.html# WS2D5E01D8-46F3-4993-937C-2F1D2910E43D
1. How can I place the topic title at the top of the page, as it appears in the link above (e.g. "Master Pages" that appears below breadcrumbs). Is there anything in RH like the variables or building blocks in FM (e.g. <$chapnum>) that would allow me to insert it in HTML view or use some similar method?
2. I would like to adjust the indentation of my Topic TOC, but without bullets or numbering. If you choose "No List Style" in the "Format Placeholder" dialogue box, the options to adjust Indent and Spacing parameters disappear. Is there any workaround that you know of?
3. Is there a way to create pop-up links or interactive functionality like the "Was this helpful button.?" in the link example above? Can I just tinker around in the code view using HTML, CSS, and js to achieve results similar to this example? I would like to create some type of feedback mechanism for our users.
4. I've managed to emulate some of the borders or lines on my master page by inserting HTML in HTML view. But I wonder if there is a compelling reason to instead manage this in CSS? Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Douglas

The topic title is normally at the top of the page. If you mean you want the breadcrumbs above it, then add a placeholder for the breadcrumbs in the header of the master page associated with the topic, then the title will drop down below that.
Put the Topic TOC in a table with a narrow first column?
Probably with some scripting. Pass on that one.
If you update a master page linked to a topic, only header and footer updates show. Test that. If it fails, then you have your reason for using CSS.
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HI Niall,
I'm glad to have found this thread as I have some forms which need 3 Master pages and something is wrong but I can't figure it out.
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I would declare i as a variable, not an integer (not sure if it makes a difference);
I would use pageCount rather than numPages and then <=;
There was an extra ; at the end of the loop declaration;
I would break the script into steps and get the full SOM of the page as a variable first and then resolveNode that variable;
You don't need to go to the current page;
I tend to name master pages with a capital "P" and pages with a small "p". Personal preference, but it can make tracking script easier.
Have a crack off that and hopefully you can get it to work,
Niall
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