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RE: What do you call the triangle-twist-open thingie?
Subject:RE: What do you call the triangle-twist-open thingie? From:"Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com> To:'John G' <john -at- garisons -dot- com>, "'techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 8 Dec 2015 19:13:08 +0000
An accordion control should resemble an accordion in some way. A triangle doesn't seem like it would, unless it looks like accordion handles. I would go with "twist control" and put it in quotes.
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Subject: What do you call the triangle-twist-open thingie?
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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