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Woah! CSS skills there - thank you!

When I want to enclose one or more paragraphs in a tint box, I normally use a DIV, which uses padding to have the tint at the left and right margins, but bringing the text a few pixels in on either side.

What I’d like to do now, is to apply a tint box to specific items within an unordered list ...

Thanks - you've confirmed that it'll be safe to upgrade from Flare 11 to Flare 2017, when all of my users have upgraded from IE10 to IE11.

regards

AK
Hi Alan,

I don't think Ramon realized that there was a typo in the post he is referencing (I believe you mistakenly said IE11, not IE10, in your ...

Thanks - you've confirmed that it'll be safe to upgrade from Flare 11 to Flare 2017, when all of my users have upgraded from IE10 to IE11.

regards

AK

I may not be making myself clear; it's not what Windows server version is compatible with IE11, it's what versions of Madcap Flare are compatible with IE11.

What I'm worried about, is generating HTML5 sites from Flare, which won't function correctly in IE11.

Because I can't make people use a ...

I've changed the font size and style of size of h3, and am finding the change is also carried over to Search Results Links on a published site, even though the change is not showing in the skin editor (and therefore I can't fix it. Has anyone seen this?

I noticed that between versions 11 and 12, the Flare System Requirements changed from 'HTML5 output supports the following browsers: ..... Internet Explorer 8 through 11' to 'HTML5 responsive output are supported by the latest versions of the following browsers: ..... Internet Explorer'.

The ...

Thank you! I had been scouring the menu settings on the Styles tab all day, and all the documentation about it - I didn't think one of the settings about how the menus look would be bizarrely moved away from all the others onto a different tab

I know it must be possible, because there are sample sites at http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/flare/customer-showcase.aspx that do it....

I have a topnav site based on the supplied Flare template. While the slideout menus of the Tablet and Mobile skins include all four levels, with the ...

It turns out v12 doesn't fix this bug - Support have just confirmed.
Does anyone know if Flare 2017 solves this issue? I still have version 10 to compile CSH help. Works fine, but is a bit of a pain to remember to switch versions.

When I raised it, I was told by Madcap it was going on the ...

By which I mean, I was expecting that if I put "page-break-before:avoid" on an IMG or P tag, and the normal flow would put it at the top of the page, then the previous paragraph would be dragged along with it to the next page and put at the top of it, above the P or IMG with the "page-break-before ...

I'm finding that "page-break-before:avoid" on the img tab in my main stylesheet isn't stopping screenshots from being at the top of the page detached from their introductory paragraph. And nor does it work if I put it as an inline style in the IMG tag, or on the IMG's containing P tag.

Your ...

It turns out v12 doesn't fix this bug - Support have just confirmed.

I went with the Flare Styles Guide suggestion of defining a class of the IMG tag for showing screenshots as thumbnails. The default behaviour is to add a blue border, which is good for indicating the thumbnail is clickable.

I'm finding that some of my non-screenshot images have light coloured sides ...

I have three queries about server-side HTML5 sites.

At the moment I have a conventional HTML5 site running off my Windows Server 2012 / IIS Server, with a few PDF and MS Office files in it, and I’m contemplating ticking the ‘server based output’ box in target | Publishing to get the advantage for ...

My source for the '#' problem is this confirmation from Microsoft.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/202261

For what it's worth, Excel 2013 has a new 'encodeURL' function, which will allow you to wrap a URL containing a #, such that it will work.

There's also a lot of discussion on:

http ...

As I understand it, that's a limitation of Word hyperlinks. Try replacing '#' with 'content/' in the link (so that it goes to the topic file's actual location in the folder tree) and make sure that the skin has 'Show navigation link at top of topic' in the Setup selected, so that the user has a way ...

Microsoft ( https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/197922 ) say the criteria to make destinations within an excel file work are that the link to the Excel file must be http: not file:, and that the file must open within the browser. With that in mind, I've made the link:

<a href ...

I'd be interested to know if v12 fixes this issue - It'll be a few weeks before my upgrade gets deployed.

Unfortunately my colleague got his copy of Flare post-v11, so we have only one copy that can create CSH.

It may only be a tiny fault in the output .js file, but effectively it takes CSH using HTML5 (i.e. the main medium now that CHM is deprecated) off the list of what Flare can output, and that's a ...

Turns out it's a bug starting at v11, and Madcap have raised a Bug Report for me.

Thank you - I've found that the problem goes away if I open the project in an old v10 copy and rebuild. So it looks like it stopped working during a product update, rather than from something I did, so I have taken your advice and contacted Support.

Something similar happens even when I use the URL method, so it's not necessarily Javascript. Including the CSH skin from the URL causes the error message to display but with the navigation pane showing, excluding it caused the correct topic to be displayed, again with the navigation pane showing ...

The really strange thing is that it used to work!

I have a project from 6 months ago which worked fine. This project is a copy of it.

In fact, the original one has stopped working too. I have output built from it at the time, and accompanying web page with button, and they work fine. But if I open ...

I am having trouble diagnosing something which is going wrong with a demo of HTML5 CSH I’m trying to do. I have two skins ‘KBSkin’ the default, and ‘KBSkin_CSH’, which differs in that it sets the window size and position, and turns the navigation pane off.

The trigger below is not working, in that ...