Limit TOC node expand function to icon only

[laurenm]

I have a user request to make the WebHelp TOC behave more like Microsoft products where the expand/collapse function works by clicking the book icon but does NOT work when clicking the book's TOC entry text itself.

There's some logic to this complaint: if I click on a TOC entry to view a topic then click on a book-level entry to view the parent topic, the menu collapses. To navigate back to the original child topic, I have to click the book-level entry again to expand the TOC.

Does anyone know how to make this adjustment so that the icon expand/collapse can work independently of the entry text links? Is this a JavaScript edit in the output files?

Thanks.

[NorthEast]

I know that HTML Help and some of Microsoft's help behave like that, they all tend to use + / - icons next to the link text.

I had a quick look at the WebHelp TOC output, and the book icon and the text are inside the same link tag; so the book isn't a separate clickable area to the link text. Obviously you'd need them to be independent links, as you still want to be able to close the book.

[laurenm]

Hey Dave: Were you looking at \content\SkinSupport\MadCapAll.js ? I'm curious where to point our developers if we're going to have to make any post-build adjustments. Thanks

[NorthEast]

I was looking at it using the Firebug utility for Firefox ; it has a very handy inspect mode.
But how that code is generated is well above my head!