How to convert cross refs to links without page numbers in Publishing pod to HTML output?

From Publish

Choose Responsive HTML5

Choose Edit Settings

Make sure the Style Mapping Tab is selected

Choose Cross Reference

Select the Cross Reference style that you use in your doc

Make sure that the building blocks selected do not include page numbers. (generally paraText only)

The mini TOC is a bit tricky.

I was helped with this by Rick Quatro.

You have to make a new definition for the mini TOC on the reference page, without the page numbers. (Remove the <$pagenum> building block from the help paragraphs)

Set a condition called Help (or something similar) on the reference page

Then before generating the help, you have to open all the files, apply this condition, do update book, and the Mini TOC appears without page numbers.

Hope this is what you wanted

You can control that with the mapping you do in your Publish Settings file to map FM paragraph and character tags to styles in the CSS.