[TYPO3-dev] UI quesition for "expand all"

Martin Kutschker Martin.Kutschker at n0spam-blackbox.net
Mon Feb 13 13:21:28 CET 2006


Michael Scharkow schrieb:
> Ingmar Schlecht wrote:
> 
>> Martin Kutschker wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know if Iäm on topic here, but why is the "expand all" link of
>>> the module frame in the BE a checkbox? It should either be a button or a
>>> plain link.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I think you're mostly right, but the trick is, if you just
>> temporarily want to expand all items, you can click the checkbox, but
>> afterwards you can easily get back to the selections you had before, by
>> clicking the "expand all" checkbox again.
> 
> 
> A toggle() function should do the same trick, so you can call it with 
> one link. But I wonder if, from a usability pov, two links 
> expand/collapse are better.

Why two links? Just one which is either labelled "expand" or "collapse".

Masi




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