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Interesting, I'd never heard of target-name in CSS - it looks like it's just a proposal. Whilst <base> should work, it looks like you need to specify the href as well as the target . This works for me: <base href="https://madcapsoftware.com/" target="_blank" /> You'd have to add ...

Sorry, but this doesn't sound right for a number of reasons. This can be achieved by doing modification inside master page or stylesheet Not sure how it can be "master page or stylesheet". They're quite different things, and I can't see how making a change to either is going to change the ...

This can be achieved by modifying the File List configuration which can be accessed from within; Target Editor > Advanced > Output File list Configuration > Edit Configuration You will get the File list configuration editor wherein you will be able to add custom column. Where exactly is this in Fla...

Yes, we switched a very long time ago. We have the help installed in different ways - installed in a local server, and installed to the local file system. One product already has server and client components, so the server component app installs the help to the local server, and when you use help in...

Psider is correct. By default, it will use overflow: visible which means the background (not text) will not be clipped to the size of the box. Using overflow: hidden or overflow: auto will fix it. I use auto, just in case the div contains content that don't fit inside it, as this will display scroll...

Replied to in the Slack group. For anyone else: Your problem is that the Side Nav menu does not load the full menu initially - MadCap's script only loads the items as you open the menu and they become visible. If you inspect the topic's HTML using the browser dev tools (F12), you'll see the child me...

What do you actually want to do? Just it's not that clear from the original post either. If you want to choose how many menu levels to display, then open the skin editor and set the Top Menu Levels to Show (Depth) on the Setup tab. As you mentioned, the setting on the Styles for Menu > Top Navigatio...

You can't add levels in the skin editor, so you have to do this yourself using CSS that customises the output . In my case, I needed to set the indentation for menu items on levels 5-7. So in the example below, this selects the side navigation container (ul.sidenav ...), selects five levels deep in ...

Conditional statements can only be used to include/exclude content that has been marked with a condition. Content that's not marked with a condition tag isn't being 'included' as such (nor can it be excluded) - as it's not marked with a condition, it's left alone and is untouched by the build process.

Props files will be created if you edit an image in MadCap Capture - do you use that? The props file contains the source that's used to create the image - the image data, layers, captions, etc. So don't delete the props file, as you'll lose the image source and won't be able to edit the image in Cap...

Flare doesn't have tabs built-in, so you're presumably using some custom javascript to display content in the tabs. If it worked before you overhauled your project, then yes it sounds like you've changed something that has stopped the javascript from working - maybe something like a class name or an...

The menu just displays what's in your TOC, so if you don't include topics in the TOC (or exclude them using conditions), then they won't appear in the menu. The topics will still be included in the output, provided the target setting Content to include isn't set to only include content linked from t...

If you're using a project import (global project linking), then the parent project would have to import all the files required to build the topics from each target, not just the TOC file. So I presume you're thinking of using Auto-include linked files to get these files? This would get the topic htm...

Sounds like you're initialising Foundation before Foundation has been loaded. Note that if you're using a HTML5 target and skin, then the Flare output will already include a portion of Foundation (6.2.3). That means you don't need to add the Foundation script or initialise Foundation yourself. Howev...

There's nothing built in to Flare that will do that, so you'd have to add it yourself. Now, say you added a script that could filter the menu (there are loads of examples of how to filter HTML), the next problem is that it might not work very well with the Side Nav menu. The whole Side Nav menu is n...

You can use CSS to hide the button:

I don't use Central, but to display content from separate projects in the same topic, then you'd have to import the content so that it's all in your current project. First, in each child project, you'd need to put the shared content into snippets. Then in your parent project, you would use a project...

I'm using TFS rather than Azure DevOps, but you'll get the same problems with project imports (GPL) whatever source control you use. Most of the problems we had were down to two reasons: (1) When you set up a project import (GPL) in Flare, you can only set it up to import files from somewhere in the...

In our HTML output we provide links to YouTube videos. Clicking a link prompts you to select a specific browser (message: "Please update your browser. Your browser isn't supported anymore..."). Naturally we would like the video to open in the preferred browser. If you're producing a HTML5...

The calculation part should work fine, assuming you've defined --offset in the stylesheet.

But the <a> tag is displayed inline (by default), so a margin setting wouldn't work on an inline element anyway.
You could try display: inline-block;

Yep, we have problems too, usually because folks expect it to work like Google, and don't realise the MadCap search only shows results that include all keywords.
Although we give tips on how to use the search, our analytics data shows very people actually use the boolean operators.

I think it's a Flare bug, as I get inconsistent search highlighting. For example, if I do the following boloean 'or' searches: A or B : works, both A and B are highlighted. A|B (no spaces): doesn't work at all, neither A or B is highlighted A | B (with spaces): highlights A only, but not B (The 3 se...

Hello all, It's 2022 and I have just switched to HTML5 Side Navigation output from Webhelp output. I am having this problem still i.e. unable to set the text to a fixed string in the browser tab. It changes with the content and I want it to remain as the product name. I cannot find any option to se...

That should be fairly easy. Just ask your developer to open the help in a Windows form that contains a WebBrowser Control . You can set properties for the WebBrowser Control to choose what functionality is/isn't available. The embedded browser control will use the Edge browser engine that's built-in...

A lot depends on how your users will open your help site. If it's opened from an app, then you need to write code in your app that controls how the help site is opened and displayed. But if the user goes directly to your help site in their browser, then you have no real control over their browser wi...