Editing outputted Camtasa index.html file

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I would like to edit the index.html file that gets outputted by Camtasia in an html5 package. Has anyone had success editing the html to remove the default black page packground and border? I am uploading the html5 package into Canvas and would like the default black page background to be transparent.
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5 months ago
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Ben Rhodes, Employee

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You can open up the html file in a text editor and add the following CSS to override the background of the body element.

<style type="text/css">
body {
  background-color: transparent!important;
}
</style>
You can put this just above the closing </head> tag. 
Save the file and then up load the package to Canvas and you should be all set.

Hope this helps,
Ben
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Thanks, Ben.

Your suggestion yields the following layout (attached screen shot). Is there another block of code that will also remove the black border?


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Ben Rhodes, Employee

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Try adding:
html, body {
   border: none;
}
Inside the <style> element.  Note, that border may not be coming from the Camtasia output, but from Canvas itself.
2019-01-25T20:22:58+00:00
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Rick Stone

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Hey Ben Rhodes

Does this code exist somewhere in our operating system as what I would call a "seed" file? So that if one didn't want to make those changes manually each time you created output, you could modify the seed file so it was just used and already had the code in place?

Cheers... Rick :)
2019-01-25T22:44:22+00:00
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I believe those would be here Rick

C:\Program Files\TechSmith\Camtasia 2018\Media\Studio\HTML\SmartPlayer\basic

Template.html
Template_Player.html

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2019-01-25T23:03:56+00:00
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Dubie, where are those Camtasia 2018 html files located on a Mac?
2019-01-25T23:06:00+00:00
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Ben, I added that extra css and the border is still present. Guess it is Canvas after all. Canvas is also forcing the embedded video into a scrollable window.
2019-01-26T15:04:58+00:00
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It sounds like you are using Camtasia 2018 on the mac?  Is the entire video showing in the scrollable window?  Our output is designed to just fill the size of the window we are given to display in.

If you want to verify where the border is coming from you can use the browser development tools?  You'd have to look up how to use those tools yourself.
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