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by devjoe
Thu Mar 10, 2016 12:25 pm
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: condition on <div> tag
Replies: 2
Views: 1432

Re: condition on <div> tag

Assuming that the alternative, where you don't want the div to appear, is a print-type output like Word or PDF, you can use media specifications in the CSS to set display: none; on this class and it won't show there.

In your print target, on the Advanced tab, there is a Stylesheet Medium which ...
by devjoe
Thu Mar 10, 2016 12:14 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Listed images with borders
Replies: 2
Views: 973

Re: Listed images with borders

If I understand what you are trying to do, you should be able to do it by specifying padding around the image and a background color. This will wrap the image in a tight box of a thickness and color of your choosing.
A possible drawback is if you have transparent images then the color will show ...
by devjoe
Mon Mar 07, 2016 1:39 pm
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Showing highlighted conditional-tagged text in output
Replies: 14
Views: 12313

Re: Showing highlighted conditional-tagged text in output

Conditional text which is included in the output gets an attribute on whatever element is tagged: data-mc-conditions="conditionset.condition".
So you could create a CSS rule in your style sheet like
[data-mc-conditions]
{
background: yellow;
}

if you want all conditionally tagged text to have a ...
by devjoe
Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:30 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Complex Conditioning
Replies: 3
Views: 1391

Re: Complex Conditioning

Let me see if I understand this.

You have one project.
Within that project you have made targets for Product 1 Version 2, Product 1 Version 3, Product 5, etc., with appropriate conditional formatting, and each of these builds to a separate folder, hopefully installed or hosted beside one another ...
by devjoe
Fri Mar 04, 2016 10:54 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Can you search for a topic if you only know its filename?
Replies: 6
Views: 3744

Re: Can you search for a topic if you only know its filename

View | File List.
Type the file name (or a partial filename with * as wildcard) and press Enter to search for the file anywhere in your project.
by devjoe
Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:38 pm
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Wrapping Between Topics: Newbie help
Replies: 4
Views: 2318

Re: Wrapping Between Topics: Newbie help

The first thing I'd do is give your headings the CSS property clear: both. This will stop one topic from starting beside the div in another topic.

It there is still stuff messed up after that, give us another shout! :-)
by devjoe
Wed Mar 02, 2016 7:14 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Finding where a file is
Replies: 7
Views: 2795

Re: Finding where a file is

If you have the topic open, click in the topic, right-click Topic Properties , and click the General tab. The Location is the full path to the topic.

If you only know the name, in the View tab of the ribbon click File List . In the File List window, in the Filter field type or paste the file name ...
by devjoe
Mon Feb 29, 2016 2:25 pm
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Locate actual topic in navigation bar
Replies: 4
Views: 1439

Re: Locate actual topic in navigation bar

It sounds like you are using a Top Navigation skin.
To get HTML5 output with the functionality of Webhelp, use a Tripane skin.
by devjoe
Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:55 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: How to use javascript FOR statement
Replies: 1
Views: 1067

Re: How to use javascript FOR statement

You need to wrap the javascript code in a CDATA tag, which is commented out from the javascript, like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
function isPopup () {

for (var i = 0, i < 4, i++) {
alert(i);
}
}
//]]>
</script>
The CDATA tag prevents the browser (and Flare) from ...
by devjoe
Wed Feb 10, 2016 7:13 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Setting the favicon in the address bar or tab
Replies: 70
Views: 99574

Re: Setting the favicon in the address bar or tab

You might try defining the path in the Master Page's link to the favicon as a variable. Then you can declare a different value for the variable in each target, pointing to all the individual target versions of the favicon.
by devjoe
Wed Feb 10, 2016 6:51 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TOC.
Replies: 14
Views: 3324

Re: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TO

Be aware that if the topics are linked to context-sensitive help IDs, they'll be included unless you exclude the alias files with conditions (if you only want to exclude some of the CSH IDs, you'll have to make multiple alias files).
by devjoe
Tue Feb 09, 2016 11:42 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TOC.
Replies: 14
Views: 3324

Re: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TO

Are these topics actually present in the web help outputs in question - that is, if you click them, do their topics appear?
Just removing them from the TOC doesn't make the topics not exist in the target using that TOC - that only happens for print and PDF outputs. You'll need to set up conditions ...
by devjoe
Thu Jan 28, 2016 11:08 am
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Title Page not including text
Replies: 6
Views: 2639

Re: Title Page not including text

I'd guess that the print layout you have for that title page has a fairly small content area (above the red swoosh) AND all those paragraphs are coded in a way that keeps them together. On the one where this info appears on another page, one line of the title wraps onto another line which makes it ...
by devjoe
Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:59 am
Forum: Single-Sourcing
Topic: ORing and ANDing conditions
Replies: 5
Views: 3905

Re: ORing and ANDing conditions

At the bottom of the Conditional Text panel there are Basic and Advanced buttons. If you click Advanced, then you can specify your own combination of conditions with AND and OR and NOT to get the output you want. You can see this fill in while you are in the Basic mode to get the idea of the syntax ...
by devjoe
Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:50 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Second-level topics take 1st level place
Replies: 2
Views: 880

Re: Second-level topics take 1st level place

The chapter breaks determine the page break at the end of the chapter and chapter autonumbering, if you use it, but the heading levels of individual topics are determined by the heading level within that topic.
To override this and make TOC depth determine heading levels, check Use TOC depth for ...
by devjoe
Tue Jan 05, 2016 1:53 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Topic file name into header
Replies: 5
Views: 1590

Re: Topic file name into header

Just format the style of heading that you use so that it is invisible or displayed off the page. You should still be able to reference it in the footer.
by devjoe
Fri Dec 18, 2015 12:48 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Tips for rationalising conditional tags
Replies: 2
Views: 1277

Re: Tips for rationalising conditional tags

I don't know of any way to automatically exclude all tags except what you include. But what you could do is make a tag that you apply to all conditional content which is excluded from every target. Each target includes the stuff tagged for it, of course, and the include overrides the exclude. You'd ...
by devjoe
Mon Dec 14, 2015 8:04 am
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Link to Remote CSS
Replies: 3
Views: 2156

Re: Link to Remote CSS

This problem exists only in Flare's editor; if you built the help with that CSS reference in place it would work.
Flare expects the CSS to be a file within the project, and when it doesn't find this file, it throws the error you saw.
The workaround is to put a CSS file in the project which contains ...
by devjoe
Tue Dec 08, 2015 2:00 pm
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Numbered lists show unexpected font. Plz assist....
Replies: 4
Views: 3142

Re: Numbered lists show unexpected font. Plz assist....

When you define a style using autonumbers and the position is "outside" anything, the number goes into a <span> tag, which is in some suitable container element outside the paragraph. You can choose a Span Class when you define the autonumbered style, and Flare will assign that class (style) to the ...
by devjoe
Thu Dec 03, 2015 6:40 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Search.mcsdb.gif & Search.s3db.gif
Replies: 6
Views: 3569

Re: Search.mcsdb.gif & Search.s3db.gif

And to completely close the loop, it seems like they are in fact no longer being generated for HTML5 help by Flare 11. My original comment was for Flare 10, which exhibited the odd behavior I mentioned back then.
by devjoe
Mon Nov 30, 2015 7:36 am
Forum: Single-Sourcing
Topic: How would I create a variable that is linked to an image?
Replies: 2
Views: 2550

Re: How would I create a variable that is linked to an image

The text of the variable is used directly in the place you reference it. So if you plan to use a variable as the image location, first insert the image (temporarily) directly into the topic. Use the Text editor to look at the source and copy the entire quoted path to the image. If your topics are ...
by devjoe
Mon Nov 16, 2015 12:30 pm
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Images missing in preview and output
Replies: 11
Views: 8244

Re: Images missing in preview and output

If it only happens in IE, it's probably some of that Mark-of-the-web brokenness.

Microsoft implemented some weird restrictions on local files in IE in a misguided attempt at security. Scripts (including the javascript needed to load the TOC pane in tripane output) are prevented from running, with ...
by devjoe
Mon Nov 16, 2015 11:46 am
Forum: Importing
Topic: When importing HTML also import image files?
Replies: 2
Views: 2210

Re: When importing HTML also import image files?

In the import wizard, on the screen after you choose the files, there is a checkbox labeled Import resources which should bring in the linked images.
by devjoe
Mon Nov 16, 2015 11:40 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Edit or mimic the template list classes?
Replies: 1
Views: 858

Re: Edit or mimic the template list classes?

There are two different styles here (in MadCap's style sheet).
SetOffFirstLevel is a style on the span tag which creates the bold and colored font on the Do this, Do that text.
The bullet is an image, set by the list-style-image attribute on the ul tag. To change the appears of this bullet, change ...
by devjoe
Thu Nov 12, 2015 9:11 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Styling the mc-wrapper element - Topic.css
Replies: 3
Views: 2118

Re: Styling the mc-wrapper element - Topic.css

I'm not sure what mc-wrapper is (maybe it's from some other output besides the tripane HTML5 I normally use).
The fact that you want to edit it in Topic.css suggests that it is in the topic, though, rather than in the skin.
The css you attach to a project appears after Topic.css in the output, so ...