Re: RoboHelp - Applying conditional tag to entire row in a table

["Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>]

How are you applying the conditional text?

If you're doing it within RH itself (and assuming that you're doing it in
HTML), my off-the-cuff guess (without doing testing) would be to think that
RH is applying the conditional tag(s) to the cells in the table, not the
entire table row.

If the condition tag is applied to the row tag, then when that tag is
excluded, the row should not appear.

RH uses style attributes in HTML to identify conditional text, attributes
that can be attached to element tags or as part of SPAN tags. Two examples,
which I set up in a test topic to find out just how they do work:

<p style="x-condition: Web_Only;">This is text that's marked as Web
only.</p>

<p>This text contains <span style="x-condition: Print_Only;">just these
 Words</span> marked as Print only</p>

If you look at your source and find that your condition style is attached to
the TD tags, rather than the TR tag, then there's your problem.

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"Karen Casemier" <karen -dot- casemier -at- provia -dot- com> wrote in message
news:222716 -at- techwr-l -dot-  -dot-  -dot- 

I'm evaluating the current version of RoboHelp. Our primary reason for
upgrading is the ability to use conditional text. However, I want to
conditionalize groups of fields that are presented in a table. If I apply a
conditional tag to an entire row, when I exclude that tag from the build,
I'm left with an empty row in the topic. Is there any way to get the tag to
apply to the entire table row, so that the row itself is hidden (no empty
rows in the topic)? I've looked at the source, and can't figure out how to
do it (based on how the tags are identified at the cell level).






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