MadCap Flare CSS

[TA08]

Can anyone please advise where to obtain the MadCap Knowledge Base CSS from the MadCap website (stylesheet used to create the Flare Help)? I was advised that it is on the website but after trawling thru the site I still cannot find this...



Using Flare v6

[Andrew]

If you use Firefox, it's pretty simple (not sure if other browsers work this way):

Go to the Knowledgebase.

Right-click inside a topic, and select This Frame > View Frame Source.

Find the style sheet in the source file (should be something like this: <link href="../../SkinSupport/MadCap.css" rel="stylesheet" />).

Click the MadCap.css link, and it will open the style sheet.

Hope that helps.

[TA08]

Yes it does!
Thanks very much Andrew

[NorthEast]

Yep, view source will show you the links - although MadCap.css isn't the stylesheet you want.

All WebHelp output will have two stylesheet links, e.g.:

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        <link href="SkinSupport/MadCap.css" rel="stylesheet" />
        <link href="Resources/Stylesheets/MadCapKB.css" rel="stylesheet" />

MadCap.css is actually generated by Flare at build time; it contains the actual styles derived from the MadCap|... styles in your main stylesheet. Do not include MadCap.css in your project.

The other stylesheet is the main stylesheet used by the project; in this example for the knowledgebase it is MadCapKB.css.

[TA08]

Thank you for the additional information Dave.

I am having problems since I upgraded to Flare v6 with generating any output. When I try to generate any output I get a "CSS Parser" error message but the message is not very descriptive in helping me to resolve the problem. I thought by looking at the MadCap stylesheet it may help.

[Andrew]

The other stylesheet is the main stylesheet used by the project; in this example for the knowledgebase it is MadCapKB.css.

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