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matt harris
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Edit Skin Files

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Hi

I'm trying to edit the HMSkin_Blue.hmskin file. All I want to do is when publishing Webhelp change the left frame at 20% instead of 30%. I found where to do this but when i save the file as a different name, I lose all the formatting ie the Blue header background and the green & red navigation button in the header.

Please can someone advise how to fix this

Thanks :frustration:
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Re: Edit Skin Files

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Hi Matt,

You are probably trying to select the "Simple Options" tab and you missed the warning message telling you that this will delete the custom template and reset it to the standard template. Since this is a custom skin, you lose all the custom code when you do that. You will need to start with the fresh copy of the skin from the /Templates/HTML Skins folder.

In templates with custom code you need to make the change in the code. It's quite simple: Just locate both instances of this piece of code:

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<frameset cols="30%,*"
and change the "30%" value to "20%". That's it. 8)
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matt harris
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Re: Edit Skin Files

Unread post by matt harris »

Thanks Tim, thats great :-D
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