"+" sign in a navigation tree

Andrew Warren awarren at synaptics.com
Fri Jun 16 13:47:21 MDT 2006


Kevin McGowan wrote:

> What would be the "proper" term for the plus sign used to collapse or
> expand the list in a navigation tree?
> 
> Is it just "the plus sign"? or is there something better?

Kevin:

In Microsoft's own documentation for Windows developers, it's called a
"plus sign", and it toggles to a "minus sign" when clicked.  For
examples of this usage, see:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/h
tml/frlrfsystemwindowsformstreeviewclasstopic.asp

or

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/webcontrols/webforms/library/shared/E
xpandable.asp

-Andrew

=== Andrew Warren  - awarren at synaptics.com
=== Synaptics, Inc - Santa Clara, CA



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