Text Elements
Text
Text Popups are hyperlinked text items which display a captioned 'popup' when the cursor is moved over or clicked onto the hyperlinked text. An example is shown below.
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Popup text blocks are annotated in the editor as <MadCap:popup>
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Popup text requires a hotspot and the text body.
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All styles related to Popup text elements are controlled in the main stylesheet as :
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<MadCap | popup>
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<MadCap | popupBody>
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<MadCap | popupHead>
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Creating a Text Popup
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Highlight a single text element or line of text. This will act as the 'hotspot' for the caption popup.
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Navigate to Insert > Text Popup and input the caption into the editor box, similar to the image below.
Popup Caption
Editing a Text Popup
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Navigate to the <MadCap:popup> tab in the top or left structure bar and select Edit Popup from the context menu.
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Use the Popup editor to update the text.
Removing a Popup
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Popup text elements are returned to normal <p> text by navigating to the text in the editor which contains the popup element. Right-click and select Remove Popup from the context menu.
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This will restore the popup text hotspot to normal <p> text and remove the captioned popup text only.
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