MadCap-Specific Styles

Following is a list of MadCap-specific styles.

MadCap|annotation

Modifies the look of content to which an annotation (i.e., internal topic comment) points. For example, you might want annotated text to be displayed in the XML Editor with red font and a yellow background. This does not change the text as it will be shown in the output, but rather only as it is displayed in the XML Editor for authors. When an annotation is inserted in a content file, the MadCap:annotation tag includes the comment's creation date, user name and initials (as set in the File > Options dialog, Review tab) of the person who created or edited it, and the comment text.

Editing Annotations

MadCap|bodyProxy

Modifies the look of the "container" holding topic content. For example, you might edit this style to add a border around all topic content.

Adding and Editing Body Proxies for Print Output

MadCap|breadcrumbsProxy

Modifies the look of breadcrumbs in online output.

Editing the Look of Breadcrumbs

MadCap|centralAccountProxy

This style displays in the interface due to Flare Desktop's schema. However, it doesn't have a function, so you can ignore it. To control the look of the Flare Online account link added via a proxy, you can use a skin component.

Note Some elements in Flare Desktop reference the old "Central" name, even though it has since been renamed to Flare Online.

MadCap Flare Online and Flare Desktop

Private Outputs in MadCap Flare Online

MadCap|codeSnippet

Modifies the look of the entire code snippet block that has been inserted in the XML Editor.

Editing the Styles for Code Snippets

MadCap|codeSnippetBody

Modifies the look of the code snippet text, as well as the line numbers and vertical border to the right of the numbers.

Editing the Styles for Code Snippets

MadCap|codeSnippetCaption

Modifies the look of the caption used for the code snippet.

Editing the Styles for Code Snippets

MadCap|codeSnippetCopyButton

Modifies the look of the copy button link that can be added to code snippets for HTML5 output. If you want to change the word "Copy" to something else, you can edit the mc-label property.

Editing the Styles for Code Snippets

MadCap|concept

Modifies the look of concepts that have been inserted in the XML Editor (when markers are turned on). This does not affect the output.

Editing Concepts

MadCap|conceptLink

Modifies the look (e.g., font, color, wording) of a concept (See Also) link heading. When you do this, the style changes for all concept links in any topics in your project.

Editing Concept Links

MadCap|conceptLinkControlList

Modifies the look of the entire list (<ul> element) when concept links are displayed in a list, rather than in a popup.

Editing Concept Links

MadCap|conceptLinkControlListItem

Modifies the look of individual items in the list (<li> elements) when concept links are displayed in a list, rather than in a popup.

Editing Concept Links

MadCap|conceptLinkControlListItemLink

Modifies the look of links in the list (<a> elements) when concept links are displayed in a list, rather than in a popup.

Editing Concept Links

MadCap|conceptsProxy

Modifies the look of the "container" holding a generated list of concepts.

Editing the Look of a List of Concepts

MadCap|conditionalText

Modifies the look of content in the XML Editor that has a condition tag applied to it. For example, you might want conditioned content to stand out with a larger font so you can easily spot it while editing content. This does not affect the output.

Conditions

MadCap|correctFeedback

Modifies the appearance of content that is shown as feedback when the eLearning question is answered correctly.

Feedback for eLearning

MadCap|dropDown

Modifies the entire container holding a drop-down effect, including the image that is shown when a drop-down effect is open or closed.

Editing Drop-Down Effects

MadCap|dropDownBody

Modifies content displayed when users open a drop-down effect.

Editing Drop-Down Effects

MadCap|dropDownHead

Modifies the text in the first paragraph of a drop-down effect (i.e., the paragraph where the drop-down link is located).

Editing Drop-Down Effects

MadCap|dropDownHotspot

Modifies the specific text that you select in the first paragraph of a drop-down effect to serve as the link for opening the drop-down body. If you do not select specific text in the first paragraph to serve as the hotspot, the entire first paragraph is used as the hotspot.

Editing Drop-Down Effects

MadCap|eLearningToolbarProxy

Modifies the look of the container holding the eLearning Toolbar for adding navigation buttons to topics.

Adding an eLearning Toolbar Proxy

MadCap|endnoteBlock

Modifies the container (or block) holding individual endnote comments. For example, use this if you want to add a border around each endnote comment created from an Endnotes proxy.

Editing Footnotes

MadCap|endnotesBlock

Modifies the container (or block) holding all endnote comments. For example, use this if you want to add a border around the collection of all endnote comments created from an Endnotes proxy.

Editing Footnotes

MadCap|endnotesProxy

Modifies the appearance of the text portion of the Endnotes proxy.

Creating an Endnotes Proxy

MadCap|equation

Modifies the appearance of all equations.

Editing Equations

MadCap|expanding

Modifies the entire container holding an expanding text effect, including the image that is shown when an expanding text effect is open or closed.

Editing Expanding Text

MadCap|expandingBody

Modifies the expanded text portion of an expanding text effect (i.e., the area that is displayed or hidden when users click the hotspot link).

Editing Expanding Text

MadCap|expandingHead

Modifies the hotspot portion of an expanding text effect.

Editing Expanding Text

MadCap|faqProxy

Modifies the FAQ proxy container holding micro content.

How to Edit Micro Content Proxy Styles

MadCap|footnote

Modifies both the footnote number (or symbol) where it is inserted in the topic, as well as the number and accompanying comment text (at the bottom of the page, or wherever else you specify its location).

Editing Footnotes

MadCap|footnoteBlock

Modifies the container (or block) holding individual footnote comments. For example, use this if you want to add a border around each footnote comment on a page.

Editing Footnotes

MadCap|footnotesBlock

Modifies the container (or block) holding all footnote comments. For example, use this if you want to add a border around the collection of all footnote comments on a page.

Editing Footnotes

MadCap|glossaryProxy

Modifies the look of the "container" holding a generated glossary.

Editing the Look of a Glossary

MadCap|glossaryTerm

Modifies the look of glossary term links.

Editing the Look of a Glossary

MadCap|helpControlList

Modifies the look of the entire list (<ul> element) when Help control links are displayed in a list, rather than in a popup. This is a general style that controls all three types of Help control links—concept, keyword, and related topics. Alternatively, you can set properties on each specific style—MadCap|conceptLinkControlList, MadCap|keywordLinkControlList, or MadCap|relatedTopicsControlList.

Editing Concept Links

Editing Keyword Links

Editing Related Topics Links

MadCap|helpControlListItem

Modifies the look of individual items in the list (<li> elements) when Help control links are displayed in a list, rather than in a popup. This is a general style that controls all three types of Help control links—concept, keyword, and related topics. Alternatively, you can set properties on each specific style—MadCap|conceptLinkControlListItem, MadCap|keywordLinkControlListItem, or MadCap|relatedTopicsControlListItem.

Editing Concept Links

Editing Keyword Links

Editing Related Topics Links

MadCap|helpControlListItemLink

Modifies the look of links in the list (<a> elements) when Help control links are displayed in a list, rather than in a popup. This is a general style that controls all three types of Help control links—concept, keyword, and related topics. Alternatively, you can set properties on each specific style—MadCap|conceptLinkControlListItemLink, MadCap|keywordLinkControlListItemLink, or MadCap|relatedTopicsControlListItemLink.

Editing Concept Links

Editing Keyword Links

Editing Related Topics Links

MadCap|helpControlMenu

Modifies the look of links (i.e., menu items) that users see when they click a concept link, keyword link, or related topics control. This style is grouped with the "Dynamic Effects Styles" (which you can select from the drop-down list in the upper-left corner of the Stylesheet Editor). This particular style controls the entire list when you are using the popup menu method for displaying Help control links.

Editing Concept Links

Editing Keyword Links

Editing Related Topics Links

MadCap|helpControlMenuItem

Modifies the look of links (i.e., menu items) that users see when they click a concept link, keyword link, or related topics control. This style is grouped with the "Dynamic Effects Styles" (which you can select from the drop-down list in the upper-left corner of the Stylesheet Editor). This particular style controls the individual list items when you are using the popup menu method for displaying Help control links.

Editing Concept Links

Editing Keyword Links

Editing Related Topics Links

MadCap|incorrectFeedback

Modifies the appearance of content that is shown as feedback when the eLearning question is answered incorrectly.

Feedback for eLearning

MadCap|indexProxy

Modifies the look of the "container" holding a generated index for print-based output.

Editing the Look of Your Print Index

MadCap|keyword

Modifies the look of index keywords that have been inserted in the XML Editor (when markers are turned on). This does not affect the output.

Editing Index Keywords

MadCap|keywordLink

Modifies the look (e.g., font, color, wording) of a keyword link heading. When you do this, the style changes for all keyword links in any topics in your project.

Editing Keyword Links

MadCap|keywordLinkControlList

Modifies the look of the entire list (<ul> element) when keyword links are displayed in a list, rather than in a popup.

Editing Keyword Links

MadCap|keywordLinkControlListItem

Modifies the look of individual items in the list (<li> elements) when keyword links are displayed in a list, rather than in a popup.

Editing Keyword Links

MadCap|keywordLinkControlListItemLink

Modifies the look of links in the list (<a> elements) when keyword links are displayed in a list, rather than in a popup.

Editing Keyword Links

MadCap|knowledgeProxy

Modifies the Knowledge proxy container holding micro content.

How to Edit Micro Content Proxy Styles

MadCap|listOfProxy

Modifies the look of the "container" holding a generated list of elements.

Editing the Look of a List of Elements

MadCap|menuProxy

Modifies the look of a menu.

Creating a Topic Menu

MadCap|microContent

Related to micro content that you create. However, in this version, modifying the style will have no effect on the output.

Micro Content

MadCap|miniTocProxy

Modifies the look of the "container" holding a generated mini-TOC.

Editing the Look of a Mini-TOC

MadCap|model3D

Modifies the look of 3D models.

3D Models

MadCap|multipleChoice

Modifies the look of question sections that have been inserted in the XML Editor. This consists of the MadCap|question, MadCap|multipleChoiceItem, MadCap|correctFeedback, MadCap|incorrectFeedback, and MadCap|submitQuestionButton sections.

Questions and Answers

MadCap|multipleChoiceItem

Modifies the look of the answer in the XML Editor that has been inserted within the MadCap|multipleChoice section.

Questions and Answers

MadCap|namedDestination

This style does not have any relevant style properties. Named destinations are used in PDF output to label certain locations in the document. These locations can then be linked to directly from another PDF document.

Creating Named Destinations

MadCap|pageBreak

Page breaks can be added to a document to break the content across pages in printed output. You can change the page break's behavior to set whether it breaks before or after content.

Setting Page Breaks and Column Breaks

MadCap|pageFooter

Modifies the look of the content contained in a page footer used in template pages for Microsoft Word output.

Adding Page Header and Footer Proxies

MadCap|pageHeader

Modifies the look of the content contained in a page header used in template pages for Microsoft Word output.

Adding Page Header and Footer Proxies

MadCap|popup

Modifies the look of the container holding a text popup link. For example, you can modify this style to place a border around the link.

Editing Text Popups

MadCap|popupBody

Modifies the popup text portion of an popup text effect (i.e., the area that is displayed or hidden when users click the hotspot link).

Editing Text Popups

MadCap|popupHead

Modifies the hotspot portion of a popup text effect.

Editing Text Popups

MadCap|promotionProxy

Modifies the Promotion proxy container holding micro content.

How to Edit Micro Content Proxy Styles

MadCap|qrCode

Modifies the appearance of all QR codes.

Editing QR Codes

MadCap|question

Modifies the look of the question in the XML Editor that has been inserted within the MadCap|multipleChoice section.

Questions and Answers

MadCap|relatedTopics

Modifies the look (e.g., font, color, wording) of a related topics link heading. When you do this, the style changes for all related topics links in any topics in your project.

Editing Related Topics Links

MadCap|relatedTopicsControlList

Modifies the look of the entire list (<ul> element) when related topics are displayed in a list, rather than in a popup.

Editing Related Topics Links

MadCap|relatedTopicsControlListItem

Modifies the look of individual items in the list (<li> elements) when related topics are displayed in a list, rather than in a popup.

Editing Related Topics Links

MadCap|relatedTopicsControlListItemLink

Modifies the look of links in the list (<a> elements) when related topics are displayed in a list, rather than in a popup.

Editing Related Topics Links

MadCap|relationshipsHeading

Modifies the look of headings used in relationship links. There are three classes of this style that you can edit. If you edit the main MadCap|relationshipsHeading style, the look of all of the classes are affected. However, you can also edit the look of each class if you want.

  • concept Modifies the look of the heading that is displayed above any concept links (i.e., any topics found in the "concept" column of the relationships table).
  • reference Modifies the look of the heading that is displayed above any reference links (i.e., any topics found in the "reference" column of the relationships table).
  • task Modifies the look of the heading that is displayed above task links (i.e., topics found in the "task" column of the relationships table).

Editing Relationship Link Styles

MadCap|relationshipsItem

Modifies the look of link items created from a relationships table.

Editing Relationship Link Styles

MadCap|relationshipsProxy

Modifies the look of the "container" holding the content from a generated relationships table.

Editing Relationship Link Styles

MadCap|searchBarProxy

Modifies the look of search bar.

Creating a Search Bar

MadCap|searchResultsProxy

Modifies the look of a custom search results page.

Creating Search Results

MadCap|section

This style displays in the interface due to Flare Desktop's schema. However, it doesn't have a function, so you can ignore it.

MadCap|shortcut

Modifies the look (e.g., font, color) of a shortcut control link. When you edit the style for a shortcut control, the style changes for all shortcut controls in any topics in your project.

Editing Shortcut Controls

MadCap|slide

Modifies the look of the containers holding individual slides.

Editing Slideshow Styles

MadCap|slideshow

Modifies the look of the container holding the entire slideshow. Keep in mind that if you have competing styles set, those set in the MadCap|slide style take precedence. For example, if you set the background on MadCap|slideshow to blue and the background on MadCap|slide to yellow, the background will be yellow. But if you then change the background for MadCap|slide to (default), the background will show as blue.

Editing Slideshow Styles

MadCap|slideshowBullet

Modifies the look of the series of dots (or "bullets") used to navigate to specific slides in a slideshow. Keep in mind that if you choose to include thumbnail images, the MadCap|slideThumbnail style will be used instead.

Editing Slideshow Styles

MadCap|slideshowCaption

Modifies the look of the caption at the bottom of the slide in a slideshow.

Editing Slideshow Styles

MadCap|slideThumbnail

Modifies the look of the thumbnail image area at the bottom of the slide.

Editing Slideshow Styles

MadCap|snippetBlock

Modifies the look of block snippets that have been inserted in the XML Editor. If you insert a snippet on a blank line in a topic, it is inserted as a block snippet (as opposed to a text snippet) and takes up all of the room so that no other content can be added.

Snippet blocks are best used for snippets that contain multiple paragraphs, lists, images, or specific formatting, or other large elements.

Using a snippet block (as opposed to a text snippet) style does not affect the output. If you want to make changes to a snippet that affect the output, you can open the snippet and modify it in the XML Editor, just as you would edit a regular topic.

Editing Snippets

MadCap|snippetText

Modifies the look of text snippets that have been inserted in the XML Editor. If you insert a snippet on a line where other content exists, it is inserted as a text snippet, as opposed to a block snippet.

Text snippets are best used for shorter snippets, such as a few sentences or words. You might add text snippets in the middle of a paragraph, in a table, or within other snippets.

Using a text snippet (as opposed to a block snippet) style does not affect the output. If you want to make changes to a snippet that affect the output, you can open the snippet and modify it in the XML Editor, just as you would edit a regular topic.

Editing Snippets

MadCap|submitQuestionButton

Modifies the look of the submit button that can be added to eLearning question sections for HTML5 output.

In the stylesheet, select the Unclassified > mc-label property to change the label for the button.

Feedback for eLearning

MadCap|testResultsProxy

Modifies the look of the container holding the Test Results when customizing the eLearning test results pages.

Customizing a Results Page

MadCap|tocProxy

Modifies the look of the "container" holding a generated TOC for print-based output.

Editing the Look of a Print TOC

MadCap|toggler

Modifies the hotspot portion of a toggler.

Editing Togglers

MadCap|topicToolbarProxy

Modifies the look of the "container" holding a generated topic toolbar. For HTML5 outputs, the Topic Toolbar proxy will use whatever settings are specified in a Topic Toolbar skin component (if you have added one to your project), overriding any buttons you may have selected directly in the proxy. If you have not associated a Topic Toolbar skin component with the proxy, Flare Desktop will just use the first one it finds in your project. However, for outputs using Standard and Mobile skins, the settings in the proxy take precedence over anything you may have set on the Toolbar tab in the Skin Editor.

Inserting and Editing a Topic Toolbar Proxy

Using a Style to Edit the Look of Topic Toolbars

MadCap|variable

Modifies the look of variables in the XML Editor and in generated output files.

Styled Variables

Editing Variables

MadCap|xref

Modifies the look and format in cross-references. This is the main style used for basic cross-references that you create.

Cross-References

Editing Cross-Reference Style Formats

In addition to creating your own custom classes of the main MadCap|xref style, you can also edit the following classes to control the look of page numbers in various places for print-based output.