Snippets

A snippet is a chunk of formatted content that is heavily used in single-sourcing. Snippets can include text, tables, images, and whatever else can be included in a normal topic. You can insert snippets into one or more topics throughout your project, thus allowing you to reuse content that is maintained in one place. You can even insert them into other snippets, creating nested snippets. Snippets are not usually intended for single words or very short phrases that change frequently. In those cases, you probably want to use variables instead.

How Snippets Might Look in the Source File

In the editor, a border surrounds the snippet (in most browsers), simply as an indication that it is a snippet and not regular content.

How Snippets Might Look in the Output

In the output, snippets are rendered appropriately according to the formatting from your stylesheet.

Note Inserting snippets is available only for authors, and only in the Content Editor accessed from the project's Files page (see Step 2: Authoring and Files). It is not available in the editor that is used for topic reviews.

Note For more information about snippets, see the Flare online Help.