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I have been messing with captions myself. The way I found that works, is to make a p.caption class. Then I put a div tag around the image and caption. This keeps them both together when left or right centering. If you search in the forums here for captions, you may get past conversations regarding ...

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I only mentioned the correct spelling as "Propeller" because of how Madcap spells it on our levels.

When I screw up in the code, it usually tells me lines and characters. Not all the time, but sometimes. It will say text on line x does not match text on line y

So, RamonS, do you currently use Flare in your present job? Or do you just keep up with it for fun?

Just to play the Technical Writer, notice that it's spelled "Propeller"

That's ok...someday I play to be more than just at level Propeller Head. It does say alot about the product though, to have people with such a high level of posts. It must mean we all like to product enough to stick around. (or have nothing better to do that keep updating the forums)

I agree that the Madcap Support is among the best. Everyone in the forums are great at getting answers pretty quickly. Thanks to everyone!

Have you tried inserting bookmarks at the site where you want the cross reference to point to? Then you can use the cross reference feature to point to that bookmarked area.

I am pretty sure you would have to copy the target and then create a new skin for each one. You can then label the targets and skins with the customer name to keep them separate.

I went into the skin editor and checked help buttons. The only other thing checked is to display button captions. What other settings are you using in your HTML Help Setup?

I'm pretty sure you have to tell flare what to include as well as what to exclude. I think if you only tell it what to include, it will still include everything unless specifically told to exclude.

Have you looked at the XML code to see about deleted out the line that looks for the alias file?

I am pretty sure that if you project link your stylesheet, then they are linked together (should show the link chain) and when it builds, it should look for the most recent version.

Have not messed with it too much, but am pretty sure.

Thank you for the tip, I hadn't thought of that. I'm still a newbie when it comes to CSS and XML.

Actually, I am not using IE, but Firefox. Do you know of any issues regarding the use of Firefox?

Again, thanks for the help. Now I'm in the process of adding another div to each one of my images/captions. I'm thinking it will take about a week to get all of them updated. But at least they should ...

This is for HTML Help system. The span tags are only there because I imported the document from Word originally. I plan to clean up the span tags eventually.

Ok. I figured out the biggest problem I am having. I am running XP on the desktop and all the div tags are left justifying, but if I put the EXACT same file and EXACT same stylesheet onto my laptop, which runs Vista, all my pictures are center aligned correctly. I originally had everything working ...

Ok, I fixed that issue, but it had nothing to do with the main issue as it still does not work. Everything is still left justified.

<div class="centerAlign">
<p>
<img src="../Resources/Images/Chapter 3 Software Manager/03000032.png" style="width: 542px;height: 246px;" />
</p>
<p class="figure ...

That is half the battle with this program, I'm learning. Once you figure something out, it's easy. The problem is the learning curve of the program is difficult.

The easiest way to do it would be to right click on the topic and open with internal text editor. Then you can just highlight and delete the <div> and </div> tags.

Hope that helps,
Andrea

Here is an example of what I originally had that was working, but now it is not. I tried putting a div around the figure caption within the larger div, but that did not work either.

<div style="height: 209.85pt; width: 6in;" class="centerAlign">
<p>
<img src="../Resources/Images/Chapter%203 ...

I tried to set a parent div and a child div, and it is not working. I can center the image, but without defining a width anywhere All I get a huge picture with a caption that centers, but does not limit itself to the width of the image.

<div class="centerAlign">
<img src="../Resources/Images ...

sorry about that last post, Lisa, I missed your last post until after I posted. I tried what you said about setting a container div to set as center and that did override whatever was causing it to left justify. Now it looks the way I want it to.

Thank you,
Andrea

Ok, so this puts me back at my original problem. If I assign a width to the div tag that holds the img and p.caption, then it right justifies the entire div tag (but the caption does stay underneath the img correctly). If I do not specify a width in the div tag, the picture and caption center, but ...