Simplify Complex Content Features with Widgets

Widgets are a configurable and extendable library of content helpers with related resources. Using Widgets where suitable delivers a number of benefits:

• Widgets reduce duplication of effort by allowing you to quickly create common content;
• Widgets help to enforce consistency across your projects;
• Widgets also allow you to separate presentation from content by defining the style and structure of common content elements;
• Widgets are stored as XML in your content, but are authored entirely inline in the same way as your other content. 

Standard Widget Types that ship with HelpStudio include:

• Note, Tip and Caution boxes;
• Dynamic Image (enlarge / collapse a thumbnail image in place);
• Colorized Example Code;
• Include Topic (include the content of one Topics in another);
• Expandable Text;
• Drop down section.