Closing a popup window?

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Sara@PAS
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Closing a popup window?

Post by Sara@PAS »

We're putting links in our Webhelp to online video tutorials. I've been trying to create them as popups, so I can specify a window size, etc., but the default popups in Flare don't come with "Close" buttons. When a user clicks off the popup window, the popup hides, but the audio keeps playing, and there's no way to close the popup completely.

Am I missing a stylesheet command somewhere for adding a red closing "X" to the popup window?

Thanks!
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Re: Closing a popup window?

Post by KevinDAmery »

I'm not sure that popups support that kind of thing (I could be wrong though).

What you might try instead is to open a full topic in a second window (i.e. use the target = blank option in the link). You can create another skin that has minimal content (i.e. no navigation, TOC pane, buttons, etc.) and has a size and position that matches how you want the videos to be presented. This would automatically give you a close button (and of course you could also add a "close this page" link at the bottom, which seems to be a common feature of popup windows in modern web design).
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