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Thanks, Nita. I submitted an enhancement request.

LDEE, I like this solution!

I'm going to think about whether I can live with the drawbacks—there are some that doc_guy didn't mention: organization and translation. Will the content authors who succeed me be confused by the use of variables and snippets masquerading as variables ? It shouldn't ...

We use data- attributes in a Flare HTML5 project. (This is another way of saying we use custom attributes that are formatted in the HTML5-standard manner. If you're unsure what this means, here's a summary of custom attributes and CSS by Mozilla Developer Network, half-way down the page.)

The ...

Thanks. That helped.

Hint for MadCap: if a user activated manually, Local Help should be toggled on—because chances are there's an overenthusasm on the part of I.T.'s security systems, or a lack of Internet connectivity.

Thanks Dave,

The developers are asking me to provide text without <span> tags around it. They aren't asking me to provide the <input> element or <button> element—in fact it's the opposite. they only want text from me, nothing that they wuold call "code".

-=- Jerome

Be forewarned.

My current client has very high Internet security in place, so the following are not functioning in Flare 12:
- Help (online website scripts are blocked).
- PDF guides (search hangs).
There's no way to disable the security.

I thought there used to be locally installed Help but I can ...

Hi Dave,

Yes, the value attribute is the button text that users see in the web application. This is the text that contains the problematic <span> tag.

This isn't inserted directly. The Flare output gets processed in the build pipeline. A script moves the text to a proprietary content-management ...

My Devs are complaining about the span tags that Flare puts around variable text while generating HTML5 output for us. For context only—don't be scared of this—the Flare output is ingested by another build process so that the HTML5 output ends up in a CMS and from there in the UI of a web ...

Here's the information MadCap Technical Support provided:

Thank you for contacting MadCap Technical Support, apologies on the delay. The reference to <! [CDATA[]] > is valid code, but please note that I have submitted a Feature Request on your behalf (#79003) with our development team regarding ...

— Sorry to re-post. I didn't get an answer to this yet, except from someone who also wants one. —

Hi,

I searched the Help for CDATA and got (no topics found).


Where can I read about CDATA and Flare?
Can I prevent Flare from inserting CDATA in paragraphs that have no content?
So: not between ...

Thanks both for your advice. I added the topics in the ToC. After generating the XHTML Book, and all the content was in a file named GeneratedTOC.htm, not in separate files. Is that normal?

I was hoping the content would be in separate files, because we want to use those for something else ...

I have a project (target output type = HTML) that publishes several topics, each in an html file.
Today I added a target whose output type is XHTML Book, and only one of my topics gets published. I'd like to see all my topics.

Question : What am I doing wrong?
• Please assume I'm a novice who ...

Hi,

I searched the Help for CDATA and got (no topics found).

1. Where can I read about CDATA and Flare?
2. Can I prevent Flare from inserting CDATA in paragraphs that have no content?
   So: not between these tags: <p> </p>

Update: The answer is posted below.

I have a Flare project that provides text for a web application that contains text, graphics, and video.
The images and video are hosted in the cloud; the team has selected Amazon's S3 service.

My text output needs to contain local-path references to the images, when it's ingested by the web ...

What's the recommended way to display text in columns that flow? So as the height and width change, the text might reflow to re-balance the columns.

I'm not looking for a solution that uses tables.

Thanks.

I was able to answer my own question. There was an errant comma elsewhere in the stylesheet.

This is incorrect

ol,
{

}

This is correct

ol
{

}

For the longest time, the difference was imperceptible to me.

I wanted to read the white paper about the efficiencies that Lingo delivers, but the link is broken: 404.

Our developers are making a Web application. It contains code, forms, nav- and submit buttons, and embedded content (text, images, video). Different pieces of content need to appear at different times. I was thinking multiple topics, and having the code call the relevant topic at the appropriate ...

I'm going to try this question again, but in a different way. So in a separate thread.

I seem to be unable to change the text colour of the dropDownHead. My CSS is below. As you can see, I've set the colour to #4488dd ( this link-like blue ) throughout. Why is the text black? —Thanks.
MadCap|expandingHead
{
font-weight: normal;
cursor: hand;
text-decoration: none;
color: #4488dd ...

I have bound Flare to Git.

I spent an hour trying to Commit files, but the list of files in the Commit on branch— dialog box was empty.

ONE TIME, while a developer sat at my desk randomly clicking 100 buttons in Flare, the dialog box came up with files in it! The he unbound the project because ...

Regarding this suggestion:
• Can you create another target that generates just that one file?

The answer to your question is:
• I don't know how. If you know, please tell me how.
I :analyzer: looked in the Help toptic, but didn't see relevant instructions. It would be just like me to miss the ...

I'd like to use German quotation marks.

When I type a " it looks like a " rather than a German quotation mark.

I Googled (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#German_.28Germany_and_Austria.29) and found a recommendation to use these special characters:
• „
• &dquo;

but these cause Flare ...

How do I get a non-breaking hypen in a variable?

After I build, I must copy an HTML file to a different folder, so that I can use Git Bash to push that file into the build of our application.

It would be nice to automate this or have the html file go to the intended location. The rest of the project can't end up in the Git folder because it doesn ...