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If you used Capture to edit the images: Using Windows Explorer, check the old folder for <image name>.<extension>.props files. You won't see these files in Flare's Content Explorer. These are XML files which store your original image and changes to it. If these are still there, you can copy these to...

This isn't the full CSH with header files and aliases approach. But if you just want a URL with the qualifiers to open a specific topic with navigation, you can do this: Ensure you have the Open topic with navigation link included in your output. Open the topic from the URL for the topic location ra...

Just switched some content from WebHelp to HTML5 today:
https://www.blackbaud.com/files/support ... r-help.htm

Some things to try: Compare the Conditional Text settings on the PDF and WebHelp targets. Compare the conditions applied to each TOC. Compare the conditions applied to the topics which appear. Check the TOC selected in the WebHelp target. It may sound obvious. But I've done that a few times. Check t...

You can use a transformation (XSLT) on the glossary to create a copy which includes only the first term for a definition in a glossary entry. Then you can use the copy for the stand-alone version. Here is the transformation: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet ...

Inge, That looks like a nice solution. In the context of a project which includes your JavaScript, I would definitely leave the height alone as you suggested. If a fixed height for the header is a deal breaker, I can't think of an unscripted, CSS-only solution. Setting an ID attribute would take a l...

1. I don't recommend setting the ovreflow of the header to "hidden": What if the heading is long and the line breaks? You cannot read it then. Put it to "auto" instead. 2. You might get away with not stating a height at all. With "overflow: auto;" the content will (hop...

Scott DeLoach posted a tip about this for everyday HTML and CSS at ClickStart: http://www.csstothepoint.com/nonscrollingheader.htm Scott's example is a good starting point for the basic technique. It doesn't work in WebHelp or HTML5 topic containers as far as I know. But this does: div.Header { posi...

An XHTML book target will produce one HTM file with other supporting files which can be viewed as single page from a web browser.
http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare ... Output.htm

Maybe Advanced > Exclude content not linked directly or indirectly from the target...
But I haven't tested it as a performance improvement.

If anyone else runs into this, you can adapt this PowerShell script and run it on your output after a build: $CshFile = Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\Example" -Filter *_CSH.htm -Recurse for($i = 0; $i -lt $CshFile.Count; $i++) { Copy-Item ($CshFile[$i].FullName.Substring(0, $CshFile[$i].FullName...

That is a strong argument to leave it alone. I don't want to add a post-build step even if it is automated and I don't want _Left to propagate after the conversion. I guess we will have to balance current needs against future needs.

See Dave's reply above. I didn't see it before I posted. My first recommendation is to rethink applying formatting to the base td tag in your stylesheet. Instead I would add a class to use for tables in your content and apply that class everywhere. However you can style the generated classes with yo...

I agree that for most cases, links will convey. This is almost an edge case. But the user behavior is what you described. Users have opened topics in a new tab via the link in the TOC, clicked the open topic with navigation link, and copied the resulting URL to share specific content with others.

Background Using WebHelp with WebHelp Setup > Navigation Pane > Pane Position > Left selected, a Default_Left.htm file is generated. Depending on the Pane Position selection, Default_Right.htm, Default_Top.htm, or Default_Bottom.htm may be generated. The optional "Open topic with navigation&qu...

Please post your improvements to this if you make any. I would also like to do this. There are at least two ways. One is to keep a dictionary of terms to remove. The other is to use rules to identify terms to remove. At the bottom is a script that implements three common rules in English to act on t...

Sorry. If you want to use the breadcrumbs proxy, you can set mc-breadcrumbs-count to 2 and create a span style to hide the final breadcrumb with no link. span.MCBreadcrumbs { display: none; } MadCap|breadcrumbsProxy { mc-breadcrumbs-count: 2; mc-breadcrumbs-divider: ' '; mc-breadcrumbs-prefix: ' '; }

I don't think it is something you can do from the Skin Editor so the answer is not easily. This is something I wanted to try. I moved it in an output's main help file and it worked. But you could also possibly adjust the common WebHelp2 skin file called Default.htm in your installation located here:...

You can modify the common stylesheets used by WebHelp Mobile targets. Located here: C:\Program Files (x86)\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare V8\Flare.app\Resources\WebHelpMobile\Advanced\Skins\Default\Stylesheets In particular, you can modify this style in Header.css: #searchSubmit { margin: 0px 0px 0px ...

I usually use tables since they are so convenient. But if you want an alternative, you can follow this pattern: CSS div.col1 { float:left; width:34%; } div.col2 { width:33%; display:inline; } div.col3 { float:right; width:34%; } HTML <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN...

The copy paste link and JavaScript from http://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons worked fine in the Master Page in HTML5 when I placed it on a web server. It can't pull the URL if you test locally. But you can also do it with a toolbar button in the HTML5 skin. Add this to the Toolbar JavaScript: ...

That would work. In your stylesheet, set mc-breadcrumbs-count to 1. To change the text before the breadcrumb(s), edit mc-breadcrumbs-prefix.

Here is a sample and blog post about a JavaScript to alphabetically sort the top nodes in an HTML5 output TOC:
http://tregner.com/flare-blog/sorting-t ... avascript/

If you don't want a button, you can also insert links with JavaScript. You could handle styling with JavaScript manipulation or with a stylesheet. This will just add a 'div' containing an 'a' hyperlink to the left button container. function linksLoad() { var links = document.createElement('div'); va...

Here is a clean description of how to show and hide an element: http://girlswhogeek.com/tutorials/2007/show-and-hide-elements-with-javascript Look at the markup for the bar while displayed in a web browser. From Chrome, you can right-click and select Inspect element. From IE, you can press F12 and u...