How to suppress panes in WebHelp?

[DrStrangelove]

We have help that is built using WebHelp Classic, and we use index.htm. Normally, we want (and get) the top, left, and content panes.

However, when selecting one particular topic, we just want to see the content, not the top or left panes. But all the panes are always showing up.

(Parenthetically, I'm not sure if this is relevant, but for reasons involving our product, we've had to rename index.htm (for this example, let's say the new name is abc.htm). When we do that, we also do a global search and replace using Notepad++.)

So for example, if I enter in the address bar of my browser:

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       http://mysite:8080/myrootdir/folder1/folder2/foo.htm

the url is changed to the following, and I see the top, left, and content panes, but all I want to see is content:

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        http://mysite:8080/myrootdir/abc.htm#folder1/folder2/foo.htm

and if I enter that second url directly, I see the same output (three panes).

I want all three panes only when I start here:

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        http://mysite:8080/myrootdir/abc.htm

Is there a build argument or css setting that will do that for me?

Thanks!

[ionela]

Hello,

Unfortunately you cannot load only the topic content, without loading the table of content and the top header when using the WebHelp Classic output.
As an alternative you could try to use the WebHelp Responsive transformation that can be customized to omit the header and the table of content in the topic pages.

Regards,
Ionela