Re: Tools -- RoboHelp/Webhelp style alignment issues in Firefox

[Amy Gale <amyg -at- grammatech -dot- com>]

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

Amy
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