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New in version 3.0: Insert custom HTML

Anything you can do with raw HTML and inline CSS styles, you can do in Simple Help Editor. Version 3.0 introduces the option to insert custom HTML. Simply add special tags to any page text to render anything within the tags as HTML. You can use it to insert tables, lists, text boxes, and nearly anything else you can imagine.

For example, you could add the following to a page:

<shehtml>
   <div style= "border: solid; border-color: #CCCCCC; background-color: #CCCCCC; padding: 8px;">
   <b>NOTE:</b> All measurements on the HTML options panel are in pixels.</div>
</shehtml>

To produce:

NOTE: All measurements on the HTML options panel are in pixels.

To get a bit fancier, you could insert something like:

<shehtml>
   <div>
    <span style="width:400px; position:absolute; left:160px; font-weight:bold; color:#22AA22">To show text on the left and right: </span>

    <span style="width:400px; position:absolute; left:450px">Use <i>Simple Help Editor</i>'s custom HTML capabilities with CSS positioning.</span>
   </div>
</shehtml>

To produce:

To show text on the left and right: Use Simple Help Editor's custom HTML capabilities with CSS positioning.

 

 

Of course you could achieve the same effect using <shehtml> tags to insert a table.

Add a script

Using <shehtml> tags, you could even embed JavaScripts. Here's a trivial example:

<shehtml><br>   <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
    function doAlert(txt){
      alert(txt);
    }
  </script>
  
  <p><a href="#" onClick="doAlert('This is an alert created with an embedded &quot;shehtml&quot; script.')">Alert me</a></p>
</shehtml><br>

Which results in this:

Alert me

Easy HTML entry

Simple Help Editor makes it easy to insert custom HTML. It includes a helper tool to assist in adding common structures such as lists and tables.

 

The HTML Helper window inserts templates for basic constructs with a few clicks of the mouse. Then all you need to do is add the content.

If you create an HTML chunk you'd like to be able to easily re-use, it's no sweat. Use Simple Help Editor's Glossary feature to re-enter the same chunk anywhere else with a few keystrokes.

You can use another Simple Help Editor power tool to abbreviate <shehtml> entries. After creating a QuickStyle entry to format text, you can apply that text formatting by using the QuickStyle's name as a class identifier with any entity.

See for yourself how Simple Help Editor can give you unlimited freedom in designing Help content. Download a free 30-day trial version today.

 

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