Expand/collapse
Summary
In some areas of the application, information can be shown in both condensed and expanded forms. For instance, in RAFT’s primary navigation (on the left of the screen), we allow users to expand and collapse menu items to browse the site hierarchy.
Code
Example (in use, with an interaction, in context)
Related patterns
Tabs; Hyperlinks
Problem (business, user, technical)
Hierarchical information can be too long to show expanded at all times.
Solution
Adding expand/collapse functionality allows users to decide how much or how little information to view at once.
Rationale (other things we tried)
We considered having this menu open at all times, but content proved to be overwhelming for readability or scanability.
Accessibility
Expand and collapse
- Summary
- In some areas of the BI applications, information can be shown in both condensed and expanded forms. For instance, in RAFT’s primary navigation (on the left of the screen), we allow users to expand and collapse menu items to browse the site hierarchy. In applications that include complex hierarchies, expanding and collapsing of those hierarchies is allowed.
- Code
- Example (in use, with an interaction, in context)
- Related patterns
- Tabs
- Hyperlinks
- Problem (business, user, technical)
- Hierarchical information can be too long to show expanded at all times.
- Solution
- Adding expand/collapse functionality allows users to decide how much or how little information to view at once.
- Rationale (other things we tried)
- We considered having this menu open at all times, but content proved to be overwhelming for readability or scanability.
- Accessibility