Inserting Text Popups

A text popup is a link that opens a popup box containing basic text that you provide. Example…

How to Insert a Text Popup

  1. Open the content file.
  2. In the XML Editor, highlight the content that you want to use as the link (or "hotspot") to open the popup.

  3. Select Insert > Text Popup.

    The Insert Text Popup dialog opens, with the text that you highlighted already shown in "The Hotspot Text" field.

    If you want to insert a variable in a field, you can click Insert Variable button. The variable will appear as syntax in the field, but in the output the variable definition will be shown.

  4. In The Popup Text field, type the content for the popup. Again, you can insert a variable by clicking Insert Variable button.
  5. Click OK. The link for the text popup is added to the topic. You can change the appearance of the link by modifying the MadCap|popupHead and MadCap|popupBody styles in the Stylesheet Editor.
  6. Click Save the active file. to save your work.

Note You can also create a popup that opens a topic or external file, as opposed to opening only basic text. For more information see Inserting Topic Popups.

Note You can use the built-in analysis tool and reports to find broken links. See Viewing Broken Links and Reports.