Introduction to embedded topics

Embedded topics are one means of reusing content.

Unlike pasted content, which has no connection to its source and must be updated independently wherever it has been pasted, embedded content is updated from a single source.

You can embed one topic within another topic or within multiple other topics, and when you change the embedded topic, the change propagates to every topic in which it is embedded.

We refer to the topic that you are inserting as the embedded topic. We refer to the topic into which you are inserting the embedded topic as the container topic.

Embedded topics are shaded gray when viewed in the Author Editor: