Hyperlinks give users of your Help system the ability to easily jump from one Help topic to another. After you have added the links and compiled the Help project, your users typically will see the linked topic as blue, underlined text. Clicking the linked text will take the user to a predetermined destination set up by you.
Two types of links are available in RoboHelp HTML: Hyperlinks, which can link to text files, AVI files, PDF files, graphics or URLs and FTPs on the Internet; and Popups, which open a different type of window. (Usually, popup links are good for definitions or glossary terms.)
Follow these steps and you will learn how to add links to your topics.
- Open a topic
- Highlight a word or phrase intended to be the hyperlink
and click the Insert HyperLink tool on the Objects toolbar
- Select a Destination topic from the Select destination (file or URL) area
- Click OK
As mentioned above, the resulting link will appear as blue and underlined, which is fine. But what if you’d like your links to be green without an underline?
Follow these steps and you will learn how to change the color of your project links via a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS).
Note: These steps assume you are using a CSS file on your topics.
- Open the Style Sheets folder on the Project pane
- Double-click CSS file
- Scroll down in the list of styles and select Hyperlink (Unvisited)
This is the color of a link before your user has clicked it.
- Click Modify
- Click Format and choose Font
- Select any Font color you like
- Click OK
- Click OK again
- Click Close
Follow the same steps to modify the Hyperlink (visited) color, which is the color of a link after your user has clicked it.