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I've seen this happen. Or, some variation of it.

I switch to text view and edit the word there. In most cases, I find that after making one edit, I can switch back to the XML editor and the problem has gone away, letting me edit normally again.

Not exactly answering your question, but what if you selected "User lowercase filenames" in the advanced tab of your target?

In the meantime, you can always open the text editor view and move the tags to put the table inside the drop-down body.

I agree with all of Nita's recommendations, and have one more to add:

If things changed after editing default.flpgl then try replacing it with one from a fresh project. Save yours for a side-by-side comparison to see how it differs. It's an xml file, so you should be able to open both versions with ...

If you're generating print, that should happen automatically. Otherwise, not so much.

There is a method you could use, but you might not like it. Replace every heading and matching TOC entry with a variable. Both will update from the same definition, and therefore they'll match.
I'd have thought ...

I would add a variable. In fact I do exactly that, but I use the date rather than a version number, and I tuck it away in a corner of the welcome page rather than the header.

You'll have to update the number in the variable manually. Perhaps you could find a way to automate it with some script or ...

Thanks. I was trying that route, but didn't get quite so far into the nested ul.li.ul structures before giving up.

This seems like it should work, but doesn't quite. I copied your code directly into the main.css file of the sample project and rearranged the menu a bit so that it would have more ...

Okay, I've got a hack. I definitely will not win any prizes for quality code but hey, I'm not a programmer. Use the following information at your peril.

I did it using PHP simply because it's a language that I (used to) know how to use. Also, it's free and easy to install. I run the .php file ...

Feature request submitted. Meanwhile, I'm working on a hack that involves a bit of pre-build menu processing. Will post an update...

This seems like a basic thing, so apologies if I've missed it in the help or another post.

I'm looking for a way to indicate which items in my side menu contain child topics. Automatically.
For example, this shot of a menu from the Flare help file...
SideMenu.png
... would look better if it ...

Thanks to your question, I now know about Shortcut World - an amazing wiki of keyboard shortcuts: https://www.shortcutworld.com
But even after browsing that stupendous reference, I don't think that it's possible to get to where you want to go.

(psst! Nita... Shortcut World doesn't have a page for ...

Tricky. The Word output is the easy part - just create a new target. The hard part is the formatting. You need a way to take a tag that looks like this:
<p MadCap:conditions="Default.ScreenOnly">
and apply a CSS rule to control how it prints.

There is a CSS entry for MadCap|conditionalText, but I ...

So far as I can see, the answers are no and no as you've already guessed. But, there are two tools that are kind-of, sort-of close to what you want.
1) You can turn on the grid and set the spacing.
2) When you select an object, numbers at the bottom left of the window will tell you the x,y ...

I've been experimenting with my own Flare-generated .chm file, hoping that I would be able to contribute some ideas, but I can't make it not work.
When I run, HH -mapid 10200 htmlhelp.chm (or whatever number) I get my topic every time.

But, having spent hours hacking CHM files back in the day ...

Almost missed the question. Sorry for the delay.

Here's what it looked like for my project, with generic names substituted.

<a href="../p_subfolder/ref_Topic.htm" class="MCTopicPopup MCTopicPopupHotSpot MCXref xref">Target text</a>
I can't promise that this will work for you. For myself, I've ...

It's an installation issue. Refer to this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=26854&p=118405&hili ... ll#p118405

You should be able to find a bunch of sources, from which you can download and install a copy for your version of Windows.

Sure. In your TOC, add a new, blank item. Open it's properties and in the General tab, type in your url for the link .

Following up... No bugs here. Flare remembers the last folder that you used when inserting images. For some reason, after I upgraded to 12, it reset the path to the project folder rather than the \resources\images sub-folder.
All I had to do was notice that and fix the path. Now, all the new images ...

Without seeing the css, this is just a wild guess, but what do you have the opacity of the content area set to? I'm guessing that it's semi-transparent.

Not really. I see DITA as a good way of organizing content, especially for larger organizations. But, from what I've been able to find, the tools available for presenting that well-organized information don't do nearly as good a job as Flare.
Proper organization is vital, but my interest at the ...

Thanks for the contribution. I look forward to reading the information at those links.

I've collected a few as well:
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2014/11/fundamental-principles-of-great-ux-design-how-to-deliver-great-ux-design.php
http://greyfiti.wikidot.com/sdg:gmeth-con-minimalism ...

This might be slightly off topic but... As I see it, if we're generating HTML5 output, we're making a type of website with our documents. User Experience design should probably be considered. I think I've heard others mention it.

But, I'm having trouble finding reference books that discuss UX in ...

Sorry for adding an update so long after the original conversation, but I was struggling with this today. Sometimes, it's the smallest things that make a difference.
An earlier post said:
It really is a simple matter of adding the css to the web media output section of the Flare stylesheet.

That ...

No, but if you check the Madcap blog, Nita describes using it in a VM on a Mac.

Adding to that...
Concepts are stored in the file GlobalConceptSet v.6.catapultconceptset, which is found in the folder, ProjectFolder\Output\YourName\Temporary

Flare keeps this updated with all the concepts in your project. So, if you do like MattyQ suggests and keep a topic full of concept tags ...