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i-tietz

Have you tried the following?

MadCap|dropDown.myClass MadCap|dropDownBody

or this?

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MadCap|dropDown.myClass > MadCap|dropDownBody

Maybe the Flare programmers are smart enough to hand the class of the dropdown down to the div ...

i-tietz

Now this is legal CSS, meaning it will only change dropDownBody elements within a .myClass class. But this doesn't work in my WebHelp output becuase it seems that Flare changes the class name in the output to this:

<div class="MCDropDown_myClass_0">

And also changes the dropDownBody to:

<div ...

i-tietz

That's how I feel on occasions when I open Flare. I learn something, try it out and shortly after I've forgotten it. I sometimes think I have the memory retention of a garden slug. :D
I know that, too - that's why I use "external memories" now: paper media (e.g. notebook) and digital media (e.g ...

i-tietz

I think, in a way, your description enforces my point that Madcap sing loud about how flexible the output of Flare content can be but the reaility is a delicate and risk-prone cobbling together of workarounds as you have described. I'd like to think there is a team in La Jolla working on this but ...

i-tietz

Psider wrote:@i-tietz I don't think the ul list should have the value defined. It doesn't make sense to me to count bullets as numbers. If there's no prior OL, then it should just start at 1.

That's true. Just post a bug.
But that doesn't solve your problem - at least not in the near future ...

i-tietz

I have a solution that works for HTML Help - it means: adding hundreds of lines of source code into each topic via the masterpage.
If I put in the js file reference and have the javascript in a separate file, it doesn't work - that's where I get the message.
And that's my concern.

In HTML 5 and ...

i-tietz

Maybe you should have a look at your temp folder - it could be full. You can delete its contents.
Last time I looked at mine it was more than 4GB big before I deleted it ... you can only find out how big the folder is after copying it to some other location.

Here's the path to my temp folder: C ...

i-tietz

I think with "span approach" erinep23 means something like this:
<h1>CHAPTER 3 <span style="font-size: 8pt; color:#cccccc;">Text Hyperlinks</span></h1>

Maybe the professional "auto-numberers" on this forum can tell you whether you can have the string "CHAPTER 3" be generated by Flare ...

i-tietz

I'd have expected that behaviour. What should it continue if there is no sequence before?
Then I'd have picked a different approach: Make the whole list a snippet and apply a condition to the items 1 and 2. On inserting the snippet: use the snippet conditions of the topics to include or exclude the ...

i-tietz

jep. beside each other.
I tend to put files that depend on each other as close together as possible. - Makes mistakes like the one you presumed a lot more improbable.

i-tietz

This is my MasterPage: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<html xmlns:MadCap="http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/MadCap.xsd">
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="headermanagement.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
window.onload = fctname1;
window.onresize ...

i-tietz

Wow!
- I know a similar phenomenon from HTML Help and thought it's "system-immanent" for HTML Help only.
Wouldn't have thought it's relevant for WebHelp & Co., too ...

i-tietz

We have snippets 1. for reuse and 2. for patterns.
The snippets of the first sort have names that start with f_
and
they are stored in a place that is close to where they are reused.
I.e. if I use the snippet in four topics in the same folder that's also the place for the snippet. If I need it in ...

i-tietz

Well ... I have this for some combinations of nested dropdowns:
1. Wrong indent - in preview too far right
2. Wrong indent - in preview too far left
3. Wrong pseudo-classes for the dropdownhotspot
preview_help_nested_dropdowns.png
Strange about this situation: It usually works! It's just in a ...

i-tietz

I'd try to float the "1" character: Add a float:left; to the styles of the first element in row (in your example the span). The following element (in your example the div) should then start at exactly the same position as the span.
Floating allows you to bring elements beside each other or ...

i-tietz

"Note", "Tip" and "Caution" paragraphs to be all indented to the same distance
Yes it does: You just enter in the same padding-left in all three classes.

I may give up on that requirement, though, as not being worth the cross-media and cross-output finessing.
To use floating text is an idea ...

i-tietz

The nav pane and its content is heavily packed with javascript ... maybe it's security settings of your firewall or Windows ... if it's real online help: Ever tried from a completely different location like an internet cafÃ©?

i-tietz

I tried a "drop-down" and that half works - it opens when you click it and closes up straight away (good for speed readers only).
:wink: Are you sure you click on the dropdownhead once and not twice?
I ask because I cannot reproduce that behaviour. My togglers and dropdowns work fine in HTML 5 ...

i-tietz

Well ... if you're not "scared of graphics", you can achieve this with a p.note class: via_background_image.png
AND: If you find somebody who knows what he can do with graphics you can even get words like "Note" or "Warning" instead of the improvised button I picked. But I have to admit that's ...

i-tietz

In your example, where the new TOC Book starts - that could be affected by the setting on the Advanced tab (just under the Use TOC depth one) - have you set "Inject headings for unlinked books in TOC"?
No. All the TOC books have topics assigned to them - they contain a short introduction and a ...

i-tietz

That helps for formatting, thanx a lot!

But the page-breaks still behave erratically. - In the style sheet only H1 has a page-break-before: always; . the result is this:
print-output.png
Each arrow indicates a H1 which means: a separate topic.

And page-break-inside and paeg-break-after don't ...

i-tietz

For test reasons I set the heading levels 1 to 4 to page-break-before: always;
The relevant text in the picture is that of just ONE topic. Paragraph number 1 is a h1 and the other three are h2.
Then I see this difference between preview and real output pdf: print-output_print-preview.png

It's not ...

i-tietz

Setting an ID attribute would take a little bit of process change for authors. Do you create templates which include the header DIV with the ID attribute and instruct authors use those templates?
yep. Precisely. And some bits in the masterpage, too ... toolbar div, I think.
The javascript is in ...

i-tietz

"Width: 100%" can easily lead to horizontal scrollbars and text vanishing underneath the vertical scrollbar. So there is no "also", I'm afraid. The reason are the different interpretations of the browsers and their versions of what 100% really means.

And concerning the pictures: Wow! Things really ...

i-tietz

Use target conditions for the project (=conditions used in the target to exclude/include files and folders).
Apply more than one condition to those files or folders that are shared.
But be careful: Include ALWAYS overrules any exclude!!!

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