Show DITA Task Steps in Separate Tabs
5 Sep 2022
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You can present individual DITA task steps in separate tabs in the generated WebHelp output by using this free plugin: https://github.com/oxygenxml/dita-wh-tabs.
Suppose you have a DITA task that contains steps like
this:
<steps> <step> <cmd>Begin by cutting out all the dead branches.</cmd> </step> .... <step> <cmd>Clean up the area.</cmd> </step> </steps>
You can install this open-source DITA Open Toolkit plugin to display the steps as separate
tabs in the published WebHelp output: https://github.com/oxygenxml/dita-wh-tabs.
To enable generating separate tabs for each DITA task step, you also need to set the
tabs.for.steps
publishing parameter to the value of
true
.
The WebHelp output should look like this:
