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I need to define a table style where the overall table width is always fixed (example: 500px) but in which individual columns can be manually adjusted. Is this possible to do?

Thank you,
Steve

Paulie,

Just a preliminary comment: Thank you so much for the detailed response!!!! Again, thank you!

I'm just now glancing at your comments and will have to revisit, but I didn't want to wait before thanking you.

Cheers,
Steve

Thanks Dave and Paulie.

Apologies -- I'm still new to CSS and I was going in circles because I did not define my requirements. Perhaps also my examples muddied the waters.

Here is what I'm after:

The goal is to make all types of links visually stand out from other text. From what I understand ...

Thanks Dave and Paulie.

In addition to hearing Dave's thoughts on Paulie's question, I'm wondering the following. Apparently the styling will be applied to HTML5, but not PDF. Do you folks know how to style links in PDFs?

Thank you.

I want to make links stand out from other text.

To do this, I thought I could create a selector that targets any element with an href attribute.

I've tried a number of methods, such as the following:

[href]
{
/* Styling here */
}

and:

MadCap:xref[href]
{
/* Styling here */
}

I have not ...

Thanks, Nita.

Just wondering,

Where are macros physically stored? I'm interested in seeing what the files themselves look like. I created a couple of macros and searched for them within my Flare project but could not find the macros.

Thank you,
Steve

Thanks Nita for digging into this.

Thanks, Nita and Matty!

I have a <p> element with an inline image, however, the image is raised about the text baseline:
span.JPG

I would like to lower the image or possibly vertically center it in the textline. I was thinking enclosing it in a span element and setting the span's background attribute to the image, then ...

Thanks, Nita and emsachs.

I had to do kind of a convoluted workaround to get the files in a state where I can work with them and check them in. From now on I plan to check files in before renaming/moving!

emsachs, we are pretty much stuck with SVN.

Thanks!

Hi,

I have Flare v10 integrated with SVN.

I had two topic files in a certain folder in the Content Explorer and needed to move the files to a new folder. I created the folder, then moved the files to the new folder. I did all that within the Content Explorer itself. Before I moved the files, they ...

I imported a Word doc and mistakenly selected the Conver all tables to "Auto-Fit to Contents" option.

I don't want to re-import.

How can I modify the table style such that I can manually size the table?
Here is the XML for one of the tables:
<p class="TableCaption"><span class="span_3">Table 2 ...

Thanks, Psider.

Tom, Margaret,

Many thanks!

The style is now visible in the group dialog box.

Cheers,
Steve

Tom,

Something is amiss. I did indeed set up the style first. It looks like this:
@media print
{
.keepLinesTogether
{
page-break-inside: avoid;
}
}

When I select the caption in the XMLEditor then open the Group dialog box it looks like this:
Group Dialog Box.JPG

Did I so something wrong ...

Tom,

Thanks! Grouping into a div is indeed easy. Is there a shortcut way to apply a class? For that I had to switch to the TextEditor and add class="keepLinesTogether" to the div.

Thanks again,
Steve

Atomdocs,

Thanks. Is there a way to enclose an existing caption/figure without hand-coding? Or do I need to manually edit the XML?

Kind regards,
Steve

Thanks, Psider and Lydia. I appreciate your replies.

Clarification: the figure caption precedes the figure so I want to avoid a page break after. Like this:

Figure Caption
------------------
| |
| Figure |
| |
------------------


Question: What is a print section? I'm completely new to Flare ...

For PDFs I want to keep figure captions with the figure that follows.

In a similar post, one of the contributors said to create a class with a page-break-after: avoid declaration, then apply the class to the figure caption element.

I created the class:
@media print
{
body.pgBreakKeepWithNext ...

Thanks, Kwag.

Thanks for the explanation and also for pointing me to S & R Master. I'll download it and use it as a tool.

Regards,
Steve

Hi Kwag,

In this case, it's from importing a Word document. I imported the document, then I applied a table style that a consultant created. When I was testing PDF output I noticed that row headers were not repeating so I posted my question.

I and the rest of my team are complete novices so any ...

I applied a specific table style sheet to the tables in my project. Later, using the Table Properties dialog, I had to set number of header rows to 1 in the tables, so I could take advantage of repeating table headers when a table spans pages in PDF output. I had to do this manually to each table in ...

Hi,

I'm in a situation where I have to do successive imports of a Word file. I've noticed that I'm starting to get multiple "versions" of some of the htm files in the Content folder. For example, I have Introduction.htm, Introduction1.htm, and Introduction2.htm

Can anyone tell me why this is ...

Thanks, Lydia and Dave.

I set the Number of header rows to 1 and now the header row repeats.

Many thanks!
Steve
PS Is there a way to indicate that my question has been answered?