About triggers and targets

Triggers allow you to link one topic item to another and assign a particular Dynamic HTML effect to the connection. For example, if you want a particular image to appear when the user clicks a specific word or phase in a topic, use a trigger to link the two topic items. The clickable item is the trigger, and the item that subsequently appears is the target.

After the link is created, you can indicate the type of effect you want to use when the target item is displayed. Some of the available DHTML effects include:

To create triggers, you first need to assign a trigger to a topic item, then you need to connect the trigger to a target. You can assign multiple targets to a single trigger, and conversely, you can assign multiple triggers to a single target.