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Subject:Re: What do you call the Three Dots? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:04:10 -0700
If it has a tooltip, call it that. Otherwise, I'd use <b>...</b>. I
don't think many people know the name of the punctuation mark.
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com> wrote:
> I used to call the three dots element the Ellipsis Button.
>
> However, I see other technical and UX writers are calling this element the More Button.
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