Creating dropdown text in a list

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mafaulkner
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Creating dropdown text in a list

Post by mafaulkner »

Is it possible to apply the dropdown text style to items in a list? I want the list to consist of short phrases (dropdown hotspot) that expand to paragraphs, multiple paragraphs, or nested lists. I can't use the expanding text tag because that works only with single paragraphs, but the dropdown text command isn't available when I select multiple paragraphs or items in a list.

Here's what I want:

Unexpanded
• Hotspot text (list item 1)
• Hotspot text (list item 2)

Expanded
• Hotspot text (list item 1)
(indented) Some paragraph text
• Hotspot text (list item 2)
(indented) Some paragraph text
(indented) o Nested list item 1
(indented) o Nested list item 2
mafaulkner
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Re: Creating dropdown text in a list

Post by mafaulkner »

Ahh. I see that I can use expanding text for every list item because Flare treats the entire item like one paragraph. Sure wish Flare Help explained that!
LTinker68
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Re: Creating dropdown text in a list

Post by LTinker68 »

That's actually an HTML thing, not a Flare-specific thing, but it wouldn't hurt for Flare's tech writer to add it as a tip.

Also, if you use togglers instead, you can have multiple items around the page expand, so if you want multiple list items to expand at once, you could use that.
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