Adding Text and Content to Frames

You can add any kind of content to a frame that you can add to a regular topic (e.g., text, links, images).

How to Add Text and Content to a Frame

  1. Open a page in a page layout.

  2. Click on the frame to which you want to add text or other content.

    Note You can add text and content only to header, footer, and decoration frames. You cannot add text and content to a body frame (which automatically displays content from your topics). You can use image frames to insert images that use all of the space in the frame.

  3. Do one of the following, depending on the part of the user interface you are using:

    • Keyboard Shortcut Press F2 on your keyboard.
    • Right-Click Right-click the frame and select Edit Text.

    A message opens, asking if you want to pick content from a template (e.g., a page number).

  4. Click No. The Frame Contents window pane opens.

    Note If you have already prepared content in the form of a snippet and added it to your template folder, you can click "Yes" instead in order to select the snippet. See Templates.

  5. Click in the Frame Contents window pane and add text or other content (e.g., images), just as you would add content to a topic in the XML Editor.
  6. Click Save the active file. to save your work.

Note In addition to adding regular text and other content, you can add page numbers, Chapter Number variables, Section Number variables, Volume Number variables, Heading variables, and Running Head variables to frames. See Inserting Page Numbers into Frames, Inserting Chapter, Section, and Volume Number Variables Into Frames, Inserting Heading Variables Into Frames, and Inserting Running Head Variables Into Frames.

Note If you add content to a frame and then later want to reuse it in future frames, you can export that content. It will be converted to a snippet and become available when you pick content for a frame (in the same way that you insert a page number). See Exporting Frame Text.