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Thanks Lisa and Dave. I tried target="MCWebHelp", but in my situation it seems to do the same thing as "_parent" and "_top". Any of those might be a better option than what is happening now, however, so that might be the best solution so far. Users will be able to use t...

Nita, I'm afraid that setting is already applied to my links. That inserts target="_blank" in my code, but I'm finding that different browsers respond to that differently. I think I need find a more forceful way to force the creation of another window. :? I haven't succeeded in finding any...

My WebHelp system opens from the application into a separate window, "floating" on top of the application's browser window. Users generally run the application with their browser window occupying the whole screen. My links to another WebHelp system open is a new tab in the same browser win...

Oh, yes. I saw this in HTML5 and was told by our local toolsmith that a bug had been submitted. (Sorry, I don't know the case number.) I regretfully changed all my text expansions to togglers. I'm also surprised that more people haven't bemoaned the loss of expanding text. (In the meantime, I've swi...

I have experienced this myself, and when I polled all of my colleagues, one of them had seen the same thing. (I think she may be the only other person in our group who has added anything to the QAT. The rest may be overlooking this handy feature.) I've only added a few favorite icons, so it's easier...

I learned -- probably through this forum, though I can't find the information now -- where to edit my Flare installation files to ensure that text always appears in the QuickSearch box when I generate WebHelp output. (I added the text, "Search in this topic," to help users understand the d...

FYI: This problem was resolved by the developer who coded the window in which we were displaying Help on the Mac. I wish I could provide details, but I only know that he tweaked something in his code that was preventing the javascript for the Print button from working correctly. I didn't need to mak...

In a window-overview topic, I'd like to display images with different portions of the window highlighted (toolbar, sidebar, list pane, details pane, etc.). Ideally, I'd like to provide names of the portions as a pseudo-menu near the top of the topic. When a user clicks a name, the corresponding imag...

I don't think there's a way to do it unless you modify MadCap's Javascript code. Which you could do, but it would have to be an after-build modification, unless you modify the JS file in the Flare program file, in which case it would affect every project you build. I'm comfortable with doing either...

I have a request from QA to return each topic to its previous state with regard to drop-down expansions when the user opens the topic by clicking the Back button in the Help skin. In other words, if the user expands a drop-down section, clicks a link to jump to another topic, and then clicks Back to...

Thank you, Richard. The version of Safari that's running on my iMac is 3.1.1 (5525.18), but remember I said that the Print button in the WebHelp skin works fine if I launch it in Safari by double-clicking default.htm. It's only broken (fails to open Print dialog) when the WebHelp has been opened fro...

I hope somebody can coach me on how to get this working. When I run my WebHelp project in Safari on my PC or my iMac, the Print button in the skin works fine. When I open the same WebHelp output from the host application, clicking the Print button does not open the Print dialog. The WebHelp is rende...

My drop-down headings (hotspot text) appear to be picking up the link and hover colors from a:link and a:hover (but not a:visited?). Is there a way for me to change the drop-down heading colors without changing all the other links in the project?

Thanks,
Christine

I'm searching the forum for information on how to remove a condition from a piece of text (say, three words), and your post tells me you might know something I haven't been able to figure out. Did this result from removing the condition manually (as opposed to removing it in batch using Analyzer)? [...