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Oh great thank you so much, both! I just needed to not be using the include option as you said.

I even use the "target 1" and "target 2" conditions for bits of in-paragraph text, where it works as expected. I tried tagging both the topic and the TOC entries but this still hasn't removed excluded the topics from PDF output. So what could have gone wrong?

Hello,

I have been using condition tags and including/excluding them from targets for a while and it had been working great for me until I made a simple addition and suddenly it's not behaving as expected.

Specifically, I had a "print" and "online" tags on TOC entries, and the "online" condition ...

So I managed to get it almost working by moving the footer out of the div and putting the parent element positioning on the next level up which is the body itself.

(To clarify, in my last post I did not mean the body element is in my div but the MadCap bodyproxy).

Now that my footer stays at the ...

Hi folks,

Try as I might I can't get a one-line copyright to remain at the very bottom of the browser in my online help.

I've put it into a masterpge, gave it position: absolute; left; 0; bottom; 0
I gave the parent element (a div that the body is also contained in) position: relative; height ...

It didn't do the trick for me.

After "Writing search entry cache" and "Generating final output" the build fails, with the error: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object".

Before I was getting this error message and a failed build at an earlier part of the build with various "Warning ...

I managed to resolve the missing stylesheet issues. At least they don't appear in "warnings" anymore in the build. There are now 0 warnings but 219 'ignored warnings' which are not open for viewing in any way. Should I be concerned about ignored warnings?

The build still won't finish, with the same ...

By design Flare includes everything in the content folder in the output unless you explicitly set conditions that exclude the content. That is typically desired because a lot of content that needs to be in the help is not listed as entry in the ToC.
The best way is to apply conditions and ...

So I figured out the issue is a wrongly referenced table style, which is even harder to fix.

I once renamed the folder that table styles is in (Resources), then renamed it back to the original (because there are files that generate automatically in "Resources" so it defeated the purpose of renaming ...

I am noticing that when I do an HTML5 build, Flare is running through all my topics in the Contents folder, not just the ones in the TOC associated with the HTML5 target - why does it do that? (I don't have this problem for PDF outputs for example).
How do I make it stop?

It wouldn't necessarily ...

Hi there,

I am using a regular tripane skin and trying to understand why some things are not appearing in my output.

Specifically, there are styling options for "navigation panel search bar" but this search bar never appears in my output, only the header search bar does. I would much prefer a ...

Hi, thanks I got rid of that, but it's still not working, whether I set the property on "default" or on "print only".

No playing around with the variables will produce a box shadow for me. Can someone who has produced box shadows in flare show me what properties you set?

This is all the code that ...

Hello,

I am trying to create a box shadow effect as seen in the attached image.

box shadow image in div.png

The shadow is on the image and the grey border is the background of a div the image is placed in.
I got as far as creating the grey border effect with the div background color, but ...

I am having a bullet alignment issue but I am not using custom bullets, just the regular circle bullets.

Instead of vertically aligning to the center of the text, they are slightly below the center, almost as if in line with the bottom of the text.

Any suggestions?

Hi ChoccieMuffin,

I do have a separate class for in-line images with the line height for this image class set to be smaller than the text line height, with the rest of the values left blank, so i'm really unsure where this extra space is coming from.

Thanks!

Hi!

I have a somewhat similar issue in that I'm not sure how/why there is extra space appearing between lines when I have an in-line image in a paragraph (or list item, etc.).

I set the line height on this image class to be smaller than the line height of the text. No top or bottom margins ...

I'm having the same blurry image problem. When I try to change the max height and max width settings for thumbnails (which were set to "48px" and "auto" respectively) to "default" it automatically reverts back to showing the settings as 48px and auto, because those *are* the default settings, and my ...

I am trying to create a table style with a fixed width first column so that it is uniform throughout the document and i'm having a few problems with it. I want there to be text in the left column and an image (various sizes, aligned to the left side of the cell) in the right column, and each of ...

I would like the pdf output to have each topic heading start on a new page. Currently it is appearing as several pages of continuous text with line breaks only but no page breaks. Do i have to go in and put in page breaks in the editor of each topic manually or is there a way to apply this change to ...

Thank you! Editing the TOC seems to work, but only for the pdf output (primary target).

How do i check which TOC is associated with the new html5 target i created? That format is still including the samples files and not my files.

Thanks.

Hello, brand new Flare user here.

I started a new project with the template "user guide advanced". It automatically populated with various folders and files. I added a new folder to the project and a few new files to it. The styling was automatically according to the master stylesheet, so that was ...