URL and Anchor Issues in Flare 2017 r2

This forum is for all Flare issues related to the HTML5, WebHelp, WebHelp Plus, and Adobe Air Targets
Post Reply
jrobalino
Jr. Propeller Head
Posts: 3
Joined: Fri May 26, 2017 9:21 am

URL and Anchor Issues in Flare 2017 r2

Post by jrobalino »

Has anyone had these issues or know how to fix them?

ISSUE 1: URLs with Bookmarks
When opening a URL that has a bookmark in it (for example, www.myURL.com/topic.html#someBookmark), the browser navigates to the generally correct area of the page but leaves the section title hidden beneath our fixed top nav bar. In our Flare 11 output, this is not the case. We believe the issue is because Flare 2017 r2 adds inline styles to the element at run time, overriding our own styles which have been fine-tuned for correct anchor behavior. Flare seems to be applying the following styles:

element.style {
    display: inline;
    position: relative;
    top: 0px;
    visibility: hidden; }

This overrides the styles we apply to our anchor element:

a.anchor {
    display: block;
    position: relative;
    top: -116px;
    visibility: hidden; }

Why is Flare doing this and how can we disable it?

ISSUE 2: Scrolling to anchors
At the top of some topics, we have a list that links to each section anchored in the topic. If users click a link, the page visibly scrolls to that topic in Flare 2017 r2, while in Flare 11, the page jumps instantly to that section. Not a huge difference, right? Well if the user scrolls back to our list of anchor links and clicks another one, the page scrolls back to the anchor clicked previously before scrolling to the new anchor. This produces a strange scrolling and bouncing behavior that is very jarring.

What in Flare 2017 r2 introduced this scrolling behavior and how can we disable it?
Post Reply