Re: Tools -- RoboHelp/Webhelp style alignment issues in Firefox
Subject:Re: Tools -- RoboHelp/Webhelp style alignment issues in Firefox From:Amy Gale <amyg -at- grammatech -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:51:12 -0500
Other people have discussed the differences between browsers' handling
of CSS.
Once you've satisfied yourself that you are issuing CSS commands that
should do what you want, there is a further wrinkle. RoboHelp may be
rewriting your style sheet (especially if you originally created it
outside RH), and is almost certainly making further modifications to
generate the *_ns.css version, which will be used in many (all?) non-IE
browsers.
In my experience, these modifications often do not preserve the original
intent, so I don't keep the RH-generated *_ns.css. Instead I do the
following.
a) build the manual
b) retrieve a clean copy of manual.css from version control and save it
in the output folder, discarding the one that RH put there during the build
c) make a copy of manual.css and save it as manual_ns.css in the output
folder, discarding the one that RH put there during the build
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