Flare default Side Menu on Home Page

[jtrinkle]

I am using the default Flare Side Menu in my HTML5 project, but I want to eliminate it on just the Home Page because I have a custom icon-based menu in the topic. How can I eliminate the side menu from a single page/topic?

[jsandora]

If you're talking Top Nav, just create a new Masterpage layout that doesn't include the side menu proxy.

If you're referring to the tri-pane HTML5, I'm not sure there's a way to eliminate that left-side frame (that contains the TOC/search/glossary/etc).

[jtrinkle]

I am talking about the floating side menu that normally appears on the right side. In the published HTML5 output this menu has a div class = "sideContent". This menu will appear on every page, but I want to eliminate it from the target startup topic.

[LTinker68]

Create a new masterpage layout, or copy the original masterpage with the side bar, then open that masterpage in the Internal Text Editor and delete the <div class="sideContent"> block. I did the same thing for the very same reason -- I didn't want the side block on the "title" page of each book.

You also need to create an html class in the stylesheet that has the mc-master-page property set to the masterpage you created. Then in the topic, you apply that html class to the html tag so it'll use the correct masterpage.

[jtrinkle]

Thank you. You recommendation works just great. I was overthinking a fix and lost focus of how Flare works in layers. Your approach just changed some of the layers.

[doc_guy]

Welcome to the forums, jtrinkle!

[djohnson]

While looking for something else, I ran across this (over a year past the original post date), and I thought I'd share my solution.

Instead of creating a new MasterPage, I added a new class on html (html.nosidemenu).

My definition looks like this:

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html.nosidemenu ul.menu._Skins_SideMenu.mc-component { display: none; }

(My side menu skin is named SideMenu.)

You could get away with using

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html.nosidemenu div.sideContent { display: none; }

I didn't use this because this also hides the topic toolbar, which I want to display.

Then for pages where I don't want the side menu displayed, I set the html class to "nosidemenu".

[smajors]

Has anyone experienced the side menu and topic toolbar disappearing in the top nav output? We're currently implementing the new top nav layout and are still testing it before publishing. After building the output, sometimes the topic toolbar and side menu will display from ALL topics. I'm not sure if this is a bug or if it will be resolved when we officially publish to our server. Right now we're just building and viewing the output on our local H: drive.

[cdschroeder]

Has anyone experienced the side menu and topic toolbar disappearing in the top nav output? We're currently implementing the new top nav layout and are still testing it before publishing. After building the output, sometimes the topic toolbar and side menu will display from ALL topics. I'm not sure if this is a bug or if it will be resolved when we officially publish to our server. Right now we're just building and viewing the output on our local H: drive.

This happens to me occasionally (about 1 out of every 10 builds). Usually if I rebuild, everything is ok. I doubt it will resolve itself if you publish as-is. I would recommend that you rebuild and see what happens. If happens every build, check your master page and make sure everything is ok there. But if you're like me and just seeing it every once in a while, it's probably a bug.