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Selecting Style Sheet Mediums

There are two places and purposes when it comes to selecting a style sheet medium.

First, you can select a medium in the Stylesheet Editor when editing styles. You need to do this in order to let Flare know which medium your style settings should be applied to.

How to select a medium in the Stylesheet Editor

Open the style sheet.
Click in the Medium drop-down list and select the appropriate medium.
Edit the styles for that medium as necessary.

See Editing Styles.

Second, you can select a medium in the XML Editor when viewing and editing content. Flare lets you use two different layout modes when working in the XML Editor: Web Layout mode and Print Layout mode. The "default" and "print" mediums are tied to these two layout modes. This simply means that when you are working in Web Layout mode, the XML Editor displays the styles specified in the default medium. But if you switch to Print Layout mode, the XML Editor automatically displays the styles specified in the print medium. This is simply a way to let you see your content in the format that you are most likely concerned about at the moment. Of course, you can always select a specific medium in the XML Editor when using either layout mode. See About Layout Modes.

How to select a medium in the XML Editor

Open a topic.
In the local toolbar, click in the Medium drop-down list and select the appropriate medium.

The look of the content changes to reflect the style settings for that medium.

This feature is simply intended to show you how particular styles make a topic look. By using this feature, you are not telling Flare to use that medium for the output for that topic. The way to do that is to associate the medium with a target.

WHAT'S NEXT?

After you create a medium and/or set style properties for it, you need to associate it with a target. See Associating a Medium with a Target.