[thelist] Marking up the right way

[Andy Warwick]

>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm working on a sort of phonelist thing and I'm spending time  
>> thinking
>> about how best to mark this thing up so it makes sense.
>>
>> Some background: User will enter search criteria, system returns an
>> abbreviated set of results (i.e. shows Name, Telephone, Title, Dept  
>> and
>> Room) for each person in the result set. The user can then click on  
>> the
>> name and it will open up and reveal extended information on that
>> person.
>>
>> So I'm thinking that although the result sets fall neatly  enough into
>> table data, the expansion thing is problematic.

Suggest you take a look at the following, which dropped into my RSS  
feed this morning. Sounds like it might be an ideal solution:

	http://www.yourtotalsite.com/archives/javascript/ 
automagically_collapsing_/Default.aspx

You still get the issue of people without Javascript seeing *all* the  
info upfront, but that might not be a problem depending on length.

HTH

Cheers

-- 
Andy Warwick
Creed New Media. <http://www.creed.co.uk>