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Depending on what you need to have a white background, you can use the !important rule to override other colors for your PDF output. For example, I'll use the print media to set the background color for the body tag like so: @media print { body { background-color: white !important; } } Now, the back...

Hm. That help topic reads, "You cannot use multiple stylesheets per content file for native Adobe PDF output" (emphasis mine). That seems to suggest that you can use one (1) per content file. But it sounds as if that's not the case. Is that correct?

In the CSS text file, the first character of a generic class is a period. For example, I have a generic style to hide the formatted content. Here is what it looks like in my CSS file. .hidden /*Content that does not display (is effectively removed at runtime)*/ { display: none; } So, in the HTML, I ...

I don't know the position in the default styles.css where you can change the values, but I would recommend not trying to make changes directly to styles.css anyway. When I need to override something in styles.css, I simply include the selector in my topic css file. The topic css is "closer"...

Tables can have a width attribute. If the width is set to a fixed value, such as 640 pixels or 5 inches, then changing the page orientation will not affect the width of the table. You want to set the table width to something relative, such as a percentage or you want to set it to a fixed value that ...

I think the menu proxy is identified in CSS with a ul.menu selector. If so, I believe that would mean that the first level of menu items would probably be ul.menu > li . Use your browser to inspect the menu items via the browser tools, either a right-cick and select the Inspect menu option (or simil...

I ran into the same problem. I don't recall if the original template I used was the same but I had the same problem where only the tile titles were clickable. To solve it, I added an onclick event to the div as follows: <div class="tile" onclick="location.href='foo.htm';" style=&...

Seems like a solid suggestion... except I can't get it or its variants to work in Flare. I've looked the attribute stuff up on W3C and tested what I want to use in their "try me" browser/Chrome, and it works fine... but not in the Flare preview window or in the output, whatever the browse...

I feel you. Personally, I think we should be able to Ctrl+click styles in the style list to apply them, preferably in the order they're clicked. That seems like it should be easy enough to implement but I'm not a programmer, so...

Anyway, good luck!

-jeff

One option, if you're going to exclusively use print output, is to use "print" units of measurement, such at pt, mm, cm, or in. So a quarter inch margin might be written as margin-left: 0.25in; You can also use the relative measurements, such as em or rem but if you want to be precise, the...

Unfortunately, Flare still doesn't allow us to apply multiple style classes via the GUI. However there are some things you can do to make it a little easier. Do you use either of the classes for other HTML tags? If not, then one way is to format the links with one of the two classes (whichever one i...

Okay, so "Content" is the "root" folder and so all paths are presumed to begin there.

I'm glad you've got it working.

Happy writing!
-jeff

I use snippets in some of my templates. I suspect the problem might be that the path to the snippet is relative, meaning that it is x folders up and over from the template file. When you create a new topic, that topic is now in a different folder and so following the relative path back to the snippe...

What I do is set the div text-align property to center. There are also other options. That's just the one I use. For more ideas, check out https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-t ... ge-in-css/

I hope that helps,
-jeff

I've never used the command line to build (or run post-build events) myself so, out of curiosity, can you run a batch file from there? One of those error messages seems to indicate that you cannot. But, if you can, can you put your post build instructions (such as "echo") in the batch file...

You can use an after pseudo element to create a fake border. Here is some CSS I took from a SteckInsights post and modified slightly for your purpose. I spaced things out for legibility but you should be able to get rid of the empty lines and move or remove the comments as needed. I used an h1 eleme...

Is the formatting all done via CSS or do you have an image inserted in the divs in your XML? Did you accidentally set the images/stripes in the CSS for the Print medium instead of the default (Web) medium?

Can you share the XML for the div and the CSS for the style or styles?

-jeff

. In my experience, Flare has trouble with the mnemonic version of HTML entities. For a non-breaking space, try the numeric version   instead of  . It sounds like you're quite comfortable using the text editor, but if you want, you can and also insert one by simply typing Shift+Space in the XML edi...

That's... weird. If you move it back in the Web view, does it then also move back in the Mobile view? (sorry for my delayed reply, had a couple of brutal weeks).

What happens if you double-click the Default file in the root folder? That should open your project.

Hm. Just setting it on the body element should have done the trick. Do you know if you set it for the Web (Default) medium, the Print medium, or for something else? Web (default) should cascade down to Print and should work for both. But if you set it for a different medium (e.g. tablet) then it mig...

Short answer is yes. Longer answer is, there are several ways to do this. MadCap Flare GUI: Flare has a Responsive Layout window pane that lets you set responsive styles and then edit how they look at different breakpoints, such as "Web" (full desktop), "Tablet," and "Mobile...

Quick note: If you want, one way to cascade hyphenation rules to most, if not all, styles all at once is to set the hyphenation on the body tag/class. Since pretty much all content sits inside the body, stuff like p and h1 tags inherit properties from body.

-jeff

Hi M33R4. It looks like you want to control the hyphenation. Check out MadCap's extensive help topic on hyphenation and see if any of the options there can help you out. http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare201 ... nation.htm

I hope that helps,
-jeff

A little late to the party here, but I'm running into the same issue.