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Sometimes you do not need to use the XML file to do this kind of thing. If you know the CSS selector (that can be found using the developer tools in the browser), then you can add that to your mainstyles.css or homestyes.css stylesheets which should override whatever has been specified in the skin. ...

Can you post some images of the design or what you have seen previously?

That would help us elaborate further as to the possibilities.

I had this particular issue in my project. In terms of the font awesome side of things, I just commented out the line-height declaration as we were not using it anyway. At the time (and since) I reported it to Madcap. It's valid CSS, so Flare should not complain about it. I never actually got a repl...

Why? Because their CSS parser is really outdated, that's why.

I was visiting the Madcap team last week and gave them a long list of notes, and this was mentioned multiple times. So I suggest you open your own feature request too. The more people ask, the more likely they will do it.

There's a couple of things you could do here. I have been playing around with skin modifications for a while now, after seeing some cool examples from Flare experts i've had working on my project, it spurred me to mess around more myself. A while back, I had some icons in my top nav menu which have ...

I've seen the same thing, I put it down to the XML window loosing focus and not regaining it correctly when you click in it again. This happens commonly when you work in the XML editor and text editor side by side. But it's probably a combination of other things too. Dave is also right... wind direc...

That little carat comes from this bit of CSS. ul.navigation > li.has-children:after { content: ' '; display: block; position: absolute; height: 0; width: 0; border: 8px solid transparent; bottom: 0; left: 50%; margin-left: -8px; border-bottom-color: yellow; } If you want to override it's properties,...

I've found that working closely with the marketing department on this kind of thing much more beneficial than trying to 'guess' what people want. Ours has a massive stock library of images to use for things like this, as well as a marketing manager who loves designing things - so I enjoy working wit...

Even though the mark as new is not supported in Top Nav, you could just make your own style to apply to the menu item.

See my post here.

I think anything you build will conflict with Madcaps own script as that controls the hover events for the Top Nav menu items. However, could be worth giving it a go in Javascript or Jquery. I was prototyping something recently that did something similar but it was a custom item I was controlling ba...

You probably want to schedule a day or two of in house Training that you host as the expert. Introduce everyone to the structure and show them how to do all the common tasks they are used to doing. Explain everything project specific and everything Flare specific that will be a new workflow for them...

Not specifically the home page ones.. but I think Scott DeLoach's webinar was pretty amazing for an introduction to working with the responsive layout tools. It certainly got me going in the right direction!

https://www.madcapsoftware.com/webinars ... l5-design/

ul.sub-menu is the selector for all of those sub menus. You can put that in your stylesheet and use the usual border styles.

The body sounds like it could be the culprit. Can you post the code so we can see?

Thanks for the info. I've also discovered that Google search won't let you remove ads (for commercial use) and there's a limit to the number of searches per month, which makes it incompatible with our requirements. Be interested to hear your findings with the third-party searches. Will they integra...

There's a few divs that make up that nav bar after the compile, and if you didn't touch the skin - its possible you altered the style for one of those (maybe you had pre-existing CSS styling part of one of them?)

Can you provide a list of the styles you changed so we can see how they may relate?

Funny this should come up. I have a call with Cludo tomorrow about potentially implementing them in our Flare project. There no reason a third party solution couldn't work, I think a lot of people just don't bother looking into it. https://www.cludo.com/en/ I was also pointed towards Coveo, but that...

I've been exploring some similar things for a future project. If you are talking about the top nav menu items, the best thing to do is use jquery to search for elements that have attributes instead of IDs (as you can't add ID's from Flare). Each Top Nav item has an mc-data-id which is totally unique...

Ahhh tables... :roll: I have had similar issues. My main way of dealing with the few tables that have yet to be eradicated from my topics are carefully making sure the column sizes are set to responsive values like percent rather than fixed values like pixels. That helps greatly. I found it best to ...

I went through this recently. We did a total company website redesign at the same time as well. The marketing team set up a lot of static re-directs to keep as many of the links alive as possible. But forwarding the links from the old system to the new Flare site was not doable as the old system did...

Glad to hear its working (kind of).

The book I was referring to was the TOC book (a collection of topics). Not the whole project.

The styling issue is likely because there is some CSS that overrides the TOC style when the item is selected. The dev tools should tell you that.

Yes I am.

I remember adding the styles was easy, but I did take a little bit of time to get them to apply properly.

Looking at your code, I think you are trying to add the style to a whole book, whereas mine is an individual topic in the TOC... Thats the only difference I can think of.

Did you apply the styleclass to the TOC item in Flare?

Mine comes from Print Only Topics > TOC.htm

In that file is a P style that says 'Contents' (with a p.TOCHeading styleclass) and then the TOC Proxy below that. I think mine originally said TOC but I changed it to Contents.

Flare does have a 'Mark as new' feature. But you can only use it fully in TriPane I think (I stand to be corrected). I've done something similar, I have denoted some beta features in our TOC and they get a special Beta style header including in the Top Nav menus. Its not totally automated, but it wo...