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Inserting Text Popups into Topics

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

How to insert a text popup into a topic

1. Open the topic.
2. In the XML Editor, highlight the text 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. Example

   

4. In The Popup Text field, type the content for the popup.

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. Press CTRL+S or click 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 into a Topics.

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