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Use a topic toolbar. Create a div at the top of each topic (masterpage / template), have the topic toolbar "float left" in it:
- Then you insert that dropdown (including its scripting code) after the toolbar, so it floats beside the topic toolbar.
- Alternative that I use: Generate a specific class ...

Could be. There's plenty of influencing factors ...
Honestly: For webhelp or HTML 5 output I wouldn't do fancy stuff like that - it's bound to happen that users install the new version of browser X and cannot access your help anymore. Experience tells me that they don't even hesitate installing beta ...

Maybe you should google the error text. That might help you in getting an idea what is causing the problem - might not be Flare or VSS but sth in the operating system.

Oh, and: We are working with MS VSS 2005 since 2008, without a lot of problems. Most of our problems come from Source Control ...

Sounds like it's a problem with the DOM (Document Object Model). Each browser has a different one and it even differs from one browser version to the next. - Welcome to the wonderful world of web development! Would be a good job for Sisyphus.

I suggest you ask the source of that menu ...

OK, your first suggestion worked great for online output, but as you mentioned, the image does not show up in printed outputs.
Background images are always difficult for print. And even if it might theoretically be possible, the user might switch it off.

1.idea:
You could insert a table column ...

This means you also have to educate your tech support staff about the help, and include references to the help in knowledgebase articles, so support see those references when they look in the KB, because support might very well not read the help, or might only read it when they first start with the ...

If it's on a public website, then make sure you list your site with the main search engines so it'll come in the results when they Google.
???? pardon me ???
What about CSH? Why the heck do you let your users google for your help? You must be joking.
If your users don't find the help you will ...

Are you working with Source Control? Then it could be that somebody else has checked out that file and it's blocked for you. Or that you have more than one version of the project on your local computer and you have it checked out in that other version, but not in the one you're working in.

You have something like this <h2 class="dummy"> in the source code of your topics and you want to change it to <p class="dummy"> ?
You will need to develop a regular expression for a projectwide Find & Replace ... what Flare version do you use?

Why regular expressions? Because the following ...

The "print" medium of that stylesheet is used for printing topics from the help and the preview. You might have to add those declarations to that medium, too.

"float" (css attribute) the image and the rest will follow. "float" is a css attribute.

It's always
a. some sort of link and
b. the hidden/revealed elements.

A dropdown needs at least 2 paragraphs/block elements to work. The link is the first element, then the content follows immediately . The content contains at least one element, but can contain pages and pages full of text ...

You could apply the margin-left (or padding-left?) to the BODY and only assign a negative margin (yes, this is really "margin" and not "padding"!) to those elements that you want to be further left - depends on what sort of setting the majority of your content has.

... not only we need those browsers, but our users, too ...

"when he opens one of the empty ones" Users aren't opening an empty one; that empty file is not "opening," only refreshing to the target topic.
The full quote is: ... and the writer wouldn't have to make an effort to find and open the "real" topic is, when he opens one of the empty ones ...
No ...

Create blank redirect topics and link them to TOC entries. The topics should have, in the XML Editor mode:

<title>The Same Title as the "Original" Topic</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=original_topic_name.htm" />
...
The content="0; indicates zero delay, so that the users are not ...

Agreed???

A topic isn't aware of the calling context and how often and in what paths it appears in the TOC - it simply doesn't have that info.
And, since you're not working with a snippet, that topic exists only once. And the place in the TOC it jumps to is its first appearance in the TOC ...

1. Make sure the ddhotspot is defined AFTER the normal link (a tag) in the stylesheet.
2. Make sure the ddhotspot is defined in the medium you use for output.
3. Do you have nested dropdowns?
4. What are the declarations for the normal link (in case you have any)?

could be ... cannot remember ... and maybe also before the dropdown?

Maybe your Temp folder is just full?

When I went outside the topic and created an unpopulated snippet, saved it, then opened it in the editor and PASTED in the content from my topic (including the Dropdown with its included graphic), THEN the snippet accepted that content and saved without complaint. THEN I was able to replace the ...

Jep. Outside Flare or with the text editor in Flare. But saving it once with the stylesheet editor is enough to "rearrange" the comments.

RamonS wrote:toyblets

gorgious term, that ...

You can edit project files in the text editor and use a Find&Replace.
Topic file name can be changed in the DOS prompt that Windows offers.
The links to those topic files in other topics you can also change be a Find&Replace for "whole project'".

PROBLEM: Adding topics defaults to .htm again - you ...

... and brings back the real interface that many people have spent years learning.
For me it's not really the fact that I'm used to something and are unwilling or unable to learn, but the fact that the same job really takes longer and needs more clicking.

But I'm really afraid that that is the ...