Reference > Project Configuration Settings

This section allows you to edit the HTML templates that define the layout and general appearance of your topic pages in all HTML-based output formats. See Using HTML Templates for full details.

HTML page templates are shared:

Note that the same HTML templates are used for all four HTML-based output formats (HTML Help, Webhelp, eBooks and MS Help 2.0).

Simple Template Layout tab:

The Simple Template Layout tab hides the HTML code of the page template and allows you to make some simple changes and additions. This mode is recommended if you do not have experience with editing HTML code.

	Create new HTML templates and delete existing ones. You can assign page templates to individual topics when you create them and in the tab behind the main editor window.
	Resets the current page template to the default settings.
Header /Text background color:	Defines the background colors of the topic header and text.
Text above topic: Text below topic:	Any text you enter in these two editing boxes will be inserted on every page above and below the main text of your topic. HTML code is permitted but you are responsible for the correct syntax.
Topics with headers have <Top>, <Previous> and <Next> links:	Activating this option adds additional navigation links to the headers of your topic. These links always point to the Top topic (the home topic defined in Configuration > Common Properties > Language Settings) and the Next and Previous topics in your help. You can edit the captions of the links in the Caption column but you cannot change their functionality. By default the links are text-only. You can create button links by selecting graphics files for your buttons in the Image File column. Use the browse button to locate the graphics files.

HTML Source Code tab:

In this mode you can edit all the code of the HTML templates for your help window definitions manually with a basic HTML code editor with syntax highlighting. Experience with editing HTML code is needed – please don't change or delete anything here unless you really understand what you are doing!