Customizing the navigation frame background

[phanna]

Hi there,

I need to customize the background colour/gradient of the navigation frame in my webhelp output. Is there a way to do this?
I've included a screenshot to indicate the area I'm talking about (not sure if I've used the right terminology).

Cheers,
P

navbackground.png

[LTinker68]

Look in the skin editor, under styles. I don't have Flare running at the moment, but I believe one of those categories of styles gives you the option to change the background of the nav pane.

[phanna]

That's where I've been searching...also in the Help topic regarding these settings. I haven't found anythig yet. If anyone knows which setting it is let me know.

Cheers,
P

[LTinker68]

Skin Editor > Styles > Frame > AccordionTOC. Doesn't look like you can do gradients or images, just solid colors. You could do a different color for each accordion, though, if you want.

[phanna]

Thanks. That's too bad. I did see that option but because it can only do a solid colour it's not what I was looking for. Good to know that you can't do it.
Cheers,
P

[i-tietz]

Don't know whether that works, but:
- Change sth at the relevant style, let's say the background-color - in the Flare stylesheet editor.
- Open your stylesheet with the text editor
- Find the changed style
- Change "background-color" to "background-image" and add the path to your image - you'll have to find the correct syntax for background-image opn your own, I'm afraid.

I've been successful a few times assigning styles in the text editor that weren't given in the stylesheet editor before that detour.

[phanna]

That's a good idea! I'm going to try it.
Thanks for the tip!

Cheers,
P

[Pamb10]

hi phanna,

i am interested in learning how you customized your help file (seen in posted image) to show the header on the top of the topic page. although i am not really new to flare, i have not done much customizing yet.

thanks so much.
pam