Closed Bug 190849 Opened 22 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Explain the '|' character in checkbox column titles

Categories

(Bugzilla :: Documentation, defect)

Product:
Bugzilla
Component:
Documentation
Version:
2.16.2
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: hauser, Unassigned)

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Details

or in the documentation http://www.bugzilla.org/docs216/html/useradmin.html respectively. On top of one of the two checkboxes, I see a "|". Does this mean "remove"?
The | indicates that the title is up one more line. Can turn this bit on for other users | User is a member of these groups [ ] [ ] group1 [ ] [ ] group2 etc. See the "Can turn this bit on for other users" above that? I'm open for ideas of a better way to display that, but until lots of browsers start supporting sideways text I think it'll be difficult.
since you use already a <table> why not simply use it as intended with 4 columns (Can set bit for others, is member, group name, group description) each with proper column headings (wrap them enough that poor checkboxed are not that lonely). If that section starts a little bit closer to the left border (the entire page is a little bit tilted to the right side), IMHO it will end up looking intelligible.
We tried that when we first did it, and the columns were too wide. There wasn't any way to keep them from "looking lonely" as you put it. Even if we put a <br> between each word in the column headings, it was still wide, and it made the headers half the window in height, which looked really silly. :)
No further 'better way to display that' has come forward in the last two years, so I'm going to move this to a documentation bug. I've seen people ask this exact question before, and while giving an explanation in the docs certainly isn't going to solve all the problems, it also won't hurt anything. If we ever do come up with a better way, we can open a new bug on it then.
Severity: major → normal
Component: Administration → Documentation
Summary: clarify checkbox column titles → Explain the '|' character in checkbox column titles
Assignee: justdave → documentation
QA Contact: mattyt-bugzilla → default-qa
'↓' (down arrow) can be used?
I cannot imagine we will ever write doc to explain such a thing about the UI.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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