Top Nav formatting

SoleWriter · Post by **SoleWriter** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 3:52 am

Hello fellow MadCap users,

I'm struggling with the formatting of my top nav topics. I've attached an example screen shot to help to explain the issues that I am having. In some places, numbered steps or bullet points are not lining up with the text. In other places, where I have set a graphic to appear below the text, it is instead appearing next to the text. Also, when a bullet point does appear next to the corresponding text, it is sometimes slightly too high and not exactly in line.

I'm not sure why this is happening as it displays correctly in the PDF output and in the Flare editor.

Hopefully you can offer me some advice!

Thanks very much,
Emma

Post by **NorthEast** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 4:00 am

Was it working previously, and if so what did you change?

kwag_myers · Post by **kwag_myers** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 5:01 am

I would need to see the Text View and the CSS for ul, ol, and li.

SoleWriter · Post by **SoleWriter** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 5:26 am

Thanks a lot for the quick replies.

Dave, I'm not sure what I have potentially changed, I have changed a few things in the stylesheet and can't really pinpoint it to anything. I applied an older stylesheet and republished and still got the same issue.

I've attached the CSS file, and below is the text view for the example topic:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<html xmlns:MadCap="http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/MadCap.xsd" MadCap:lastBlockDepth="6" MadCap:lastHeight="702" MadCap:lastWidth="958" class="topic" MadCap:conditions="Default.Updated">
<head>
<link href="../Resources/Stylesheets/Lavastorm - HTMLTopNav.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1 class="ChapterHeading" MadCap:autonum="1. ">Viewing graphs in Lavastorm Explorer</h1>
<ul class="PrerequisiteBullet">
<li>
You have received a <MadCap:keyword term="web link" />web link to view a graph in Lavastorm Explorer.
</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Navigate to the web link.</li>
<li>
Enter your user name and password to sign in to your Lavastorm Analytics Engine (LAE) account.
<ul class="ResultBullet">
<li>Your graph opens in Lavastorm Explorer.</li>
</ul>
 
</li>
</ol>
<ul class="PrerequisiteBullet">
<li>
 You have selected a graph in the LAE Directory, see <MadCap:xref href="../H_LAE Directory/My Documents.htm" class="Link_NoPageNumber">Selecting a graph to view.</MadCap:xref>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="OneStep">
<li>
From the details pane, click Open to view the selected graph in Lavastorm Explorer.

<img src="../Resources/Images/LAE-ActionsBar1-EH26052015.png" title="Open graph in Lavastorm Explorer." />

</li>
</ul>
By default, the graph and run parameters are displayed when a graph is loaded. If you click a node, the node parameters are displayed in place of the graph and run parameters, see <MadCap:xref href="Viewing Node Parameters.htm" class="Link_NoPageNumber">Viewing node parameters</MadCap:xref>. You can edit the run parameters by clicking the Run Graph button, see <MadCap:xref href="Re-Running a Graph.htm" class="Link_NoPageNumber">Re-running a graph and editing run parameters</MadCap:xref>.
 Note: ">Only graphs that have been uploaded to the web application are available to select from the LAE Directory. If you are given a graph link generated through Logistics Manager, the graph opens directly in Lavastorm Explorer and is not listed in the LAE Directory.
 Note: ">It is not possible to create or edit graphs in Lavastorm Explorer. For more information on creating and editing graphs, see the Lavastorm Analytics Engine BRE help content.
You can perform the following tasks in Lavastorm Explorer, see:
<ul>
<li>
<MadCap:xref href="Navigating the Graph Canvas.htm" class="Link_NoPageNumber">Navigating the graph canvas</MadCap:xref>
</li>
<li>
<MadCap:xref href="Panning.htm" class="Link_NoPageNumber">Panning</MadCap:xref>
</li>
<li>
<MadCap:xref href="Viewing Node Information in the Data Viewer.htm" class="Link_NoPageNumber">Viewing node output data in the Data Viewer</MadCap:xref>
</li>
<li>
<MadCap:xref href="Viewing Node Parameters.htm" class="Link_NoPageNumber">Viewing node parameters</MadCap:xref>
</li>
<li>
<MadCap:xref href="Tracing.htm" class="Link_NoPageNumber">Tracing</MadCap:xref>
</li>
<li>
<MadCap:xref href="Re-Running a Graph.htm" class="Link_NoPageNumber">Re-running a graph and editing run parameters</MadCap:xref>
</li>
</ul>
The following screen shot gives an overview of the Lavastorm Explorer user interface. The graph shows the passage of data from left to right.

<img src="../Resources/Images/LAE-GraphCanvasScreen2-EH13042015.png" alt="" title="Lavastorm Explorer user interface. Click to expand." style="mc-thumbnail: popup;" MadCap:conditions="Default.OnlineOnly" />

</body>
</html>

Thanks a lot!

Post by **NorthEast** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 5:32 am

Is that the correct file?
The topic stylesheet link is to Lavastorm - HTMLTopNav.css, but the attached file is Default_Lavastorm.css.

SoleWriter · Post by **SoleWriter** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 5:35 am

Good spot, but Default_Lavastorm.css is the correct stylesheet. Lavastorm - HTMLTopNav.css is an older css file that I had just applied to the topic for testing a few minutes ago to see if the output had the same issue (which it did).

kwag_myers · Post by **kwag_myers** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 12:23 pm

The first thing I see is that some of the <li>'s have nested tags. I'd remove them to see if that helps, because the list items that don't have nested paragraphs appear to be fine. The easiest way to remove them is to right-click the block on the left side of the XML Editor and select Unbind.

nestedPara.png

Post by **doc_guy** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:49 pm

The nested Paragraph tabs caught my attention as well. If you need the paragraphs in there (say, if you need to have images inside the list item), then I would do one (or both) of two things: (1) ensure you are consistent and always use nested paragraphs inside LI elements; (2) modify your style sheet to remove extra paragraph spacing around paragraph items that are children of li elements.

The CSS to do this would be:

Code: Select all

li p {
padding:0;
margin:0 0 .5em 0;
}

Or something similar. You need to have space between your sibling paragraphs within the LI, so you can't just set both the margin and padding to 0, but you want to remove any other formatting that is coming from the P element.

What you need to remember here is that padding and margin is additive in CSS, so the padding of the paragraph inside the li gets added to the padding applied to the LI.

Using the complex selector, in the code above, allows you to target paragraphs inside LIs so that you don't have extra spaces there.

SoleWriter · Post by **SoleWriter** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 6:27 am

Thanks both kwag_myers and Paul, very helpful

As well as the pointers that you gave me, I noticed that my output was somehow referencing an old stylesheet, despite me pointing the topics to a new stylesheet. To fix this, I removed the old stylesheet from the project folder all together, and this also helped to tighten up some of the formatting issues.

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