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Subject:Re: name for expand/collapse button From:"Michael West" <mbwest -at- bigpond -dot- com> To:techwr-l Date:Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:06:23 +1100
James Jones wrote:
> Patrice Dodd wrote:
>>> I need a name for the button that expands and collapses a pane. To see
>>> an example, go to
> Michael West wrote:
>> By the way, the button doesn't exactly expand
>> and collapse a "pane"; it expands and collapses
>> a list. The "pane" is just the container, and of no
>> interest to me as a user. It's the stuff inside the
>> container that I want to know about.
> In the XYZ panel, click the button next to the heading to
> expand list of options.
Now *that* sounds familiar. Oh, I see -- it's what I posted
with a couple of changes.
But no, you can't really use the definite article
("the heading") there because you haven't specified
*which* heading you mean. It needs to be "a heading"
or "any heading" unless you specify a particular one.
--
Michael West
