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We have a content repository that we are trying to bind to the Dynamic Help panel. When we do, we see that the CSS defined for the help panel is different than what is used for our content (it also seems different than what we use in the help system). We need a way to define or override this behavior. Second issue but related is that all pages that are loaded are relative to the help system not the repository added as an extension point. Users also have the ability to set a preference that determines if a Help document is loaded in place, or in the editor area. Currently our repository use the Help System’s preferences, so this setting will apply to our pages as well. Again the problem here is that the CSS and images are relative to the our repository, but the page is loaded to be relative to the help servlet.
I looked into this a little and have a couple of different ideas as to what might be going on. When I created a help plugin in my workspace ane referenced a CSS file from another workspace project that worked OK. One thing I noticed however was that the Eclipse supplied CSS was being included after the user supplied CSS which means that your CSS can be overridden unless you add !important to the lines in your CSS file. I don't know if this is your problem, are you still seeing this problem?
The first issue, the ability to change the path to the css file inserted into the help view is fixed in 3.3M2, see Bug 200031. The second issue I believe can be solved if your use PLUGINS_ROOT/plugin_name in your css path. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 200031 ***
