Forum Discussion
Change bullet color in Rise
In Rise, when I change the color of text to white, the bullets remain black. Is there a way to make the bullets the same color as text?
It's possible to change bullet colors in Rise by editing HTML after exporting:
1. Export your course from Rise.
2. Open index.html which is in the root of output folder for Web or XAPI output, in scormcontent folder for SCORM 1.2 output.
3. Copy the contents of window.courseData variable - literally all the text in-between the quotes:
4. Go to https://www.base64decode.org/ , paste contents into the top textbox, and tap <DECODE> button.
5. Copy the decoded text from the bottom textbox and paste into a text editor of your choice, I'm using Sublime Text.
6. Find your bullets by searching for the list item text:
7. Now go to the <ul> parent tag:
and add the color styling like this:
So in above, I added
style=\"color:#FF0000;\"
to <ul> so default bullets become red. Remember the backslashes (\) before the quotes.
8. Now copy all the text from your text editor.
9. Go to https://www.base64encode.org/ , paste the text into the top textbox, make sure these settings are selected:
and tap >ENCODE< button.
10. Copy the encoded text from the bottom textbox and paste to replace over the window.courseData variable text inside the quotes you copied in step 3.
11. Save your changes to index.html and open in browser, bullets should now be the color you want:
If you just see a white screen, make sure you had correct settings in step 9 and included backslashes in step 7.
Christopher,
This is part of what Articulate promotes on their Rise 360 page:
Author quickly on the web
A browser is all you need to create lessons optimized for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
This is exactly why I use Rise. I mean, Rise is limiting in a lot of ways, but it's quick and easy to get fairly good results. I think it's designed to appeal to people who are not coding experts or simply don't have the time to fiddle around with hundreds of lines of code to change the color of a bullet. If I would want to do this, I would just build my courses from scratch and get exactly what I want. This is like buying a new car and having to get under the hood everytime I need to start the damn thing.
We're just asking for very basic functionality, not an obscure feature that would be useless for most people. Having to do workarounds like this defeats the purpose and provides another incentive for Articulate to do nothing.
I found a way to change the colour of the bullets.
Its by not having them at all. Just manually insert a bullet character or glyph. This allows you to change the colour but also change the size because its typed in and not a preset.
That doesn't give you proper bullet formatting though, i.e. if the text is more than one line, the second line of text will go below the bullet rather than indented and aligned with the line above.
