Specifying the Default Tab or Accordion Item for the Output Window

Using the Skin Editor, you can select one of the navigation elements to serve as the default in the output. If you are creating Microsoft HTML Help output, these elements will display as tabs in the output window (except for a glossary, which is included in the TOC as a book). If you are creating other outputs, these elements will display as accordion items in the output window.

How to Specify the Default Tab or Accordion Item for the Output Window

  1. Open a Standard or HTML5 Tripane skin.
  2. Select the General tab.
  3. In the Features section, select the navigation element that you want to use as the default in the output window.
  4. Click Make Default. The word "(default)" is added after the element.
  5. Click Save the active file. to save your work.

Note For Microsoft HTML Help, the default tab will be displayed the first time the CHM file is launched on a system. However, the last tab viewed is then remembered as the default the next time the Help is opened.

What’s Next?

Make sure that you associate the skin with the target. See Associating Skins With Targets.