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The Link List tool can automatically create a variety of different lists of hyperlinks to topics and insert them in your topic. These lists are dynamic. This means that they are not created when you insert them, but every time you publish your project. This means that the list is always up to date at the time of publishing.
The tool is located in the Insert Object section at the right end of the Write tab:
Opening the tool displays this dialog: ![]() Just select the list type (see further below for a reference) and configure your settings: Dialog settings: See further below in this topic for a description of the link list types.
The list is inserted as a placeholder! Note that the list is not generated when you insert it. You will only see a placeholder in the topic editor. The actual list is generated when you publish your project so that the topics it contains are always up to date. |
Available list types:
List formatting: The formatting of the list is generated automatically and based on the formatting of the placeholder. The easiest way to achieve this is to apply a paragraph style to the placeholder. Then the list will be formatted with that style. Otherwise just select the placeholder and then format it with the Font and Paragraph dialogs in the Write tab. |
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Formatting with your own CSS in HTML output When you publish to HTML-based formats topic links in link lists have an additional CSS class hmlinklistitem. This is added to the standard topiclink class, so that topic links in link lists have the class attribute class="topiclink hmlinklistitem". You can use this to format topic links in link lists differently from other topic links. |