Re: What do you call the triangle-twist-open thingie?

["Elisa R. Sawyer" <elisawyer -at- gmail -dot- com>]

FWIW I discovered a blog that lists "18 best accordian tabs and menus" and
that also lists some good resources for free CSS templates:

http://designscrazed.org/html5-css3-accordion-tabs/

HTH.

-Elisa

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:39 AM, John G <john -at- garisons -dot- com> wrote:

> >
> > Thanks, David. If you scroll down on the MS Guide you linked to, you'll
> > see that they are called "arrows" or "rotating triangles" depending on
> the
> > exact glyph that is used.
> >
> >
> > JG
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:14 AM, David Artman <david -at- davidartman -dot- com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>    They are "progressive disclosure controls" or "progressive-disclosure
> >>    controls" if you want to fix Microsoft's punctuation:
> >>
> >>    [1]
> >> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn742409(v=
> >>    vs.85).aspx
> >>
> >>    -------- Original Message --------
> >>    Subject: What do you call the triangle-twist-open thingie?
> >>    From: John G <[2]john -at- garisons -dot- com>
> >>    Date: Tue, December 08, 2015 2:10 pm
> >>    To: "[3]techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <[4]techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> >
> >>    Many web sites these days use a triangle-shaped icon ... click it,
> and
> >>    it
> >>    rotates 90 degrees to display something (text, links, etc.) that was
> >>    previously hidden.
> >>    I call them "twist controls" but one of my SMEs says they are
> >>    "accordion"
> >>    controls.
> >>    What do my fellow tech whirlers refer to these as?
> >>    JG
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