Expanding/contracting topics in Webhelp

[barbara_seddon]

I am working on a webhelp project where potentially, some topics are going to be very lengthy.

Rather than breaking the topic up by cutting parts of it out and to pasting it to another topic, then hyperlinking out from the original topic, I wondered if there was a way of contracting the text and clicking on a piece of heading text that would then expand the rest.

And if that text could be hidden again by clicking on the heading text again, that would be even better.

[RoboColum_n_]

This sounds exactly what DHTML Effects were written for. Try using DHTML Drop Down functionality. It works by clicking on a link and displaying text inside the drop down. It is not everyone's cup of tea and it has some draw backs. For a start if a searched keyword is inside the dropdown, the topic is displayed in the search results if searched on. That's good. Trouble is the user can't find the keyword unless the drop down is expanded. There are solutions to get around this (e.g. Javascript).

[barbara_seddon]

Thanks for your response. It works perfectly.