Wrap text around TOC
May 6, 2011 12:00 AM
I am wrapping text around an image but the Table of Contents (TOC) is screwing up the wrapping. My TOC is hidden unless the user clicks a button to open it. The problem is that the textbox is treating the TOC like an image and wrapping around it, even when the TOC is invisible. This results in a huge whitespace on my screen where the TOC resides. Is there a way to set my text to wrap but ignore the fact that my course has a TOC?
Discussion (2)
The way the Wrap Text feature was implemented (way back when) did not account for Initially Hidden objects and there has not been any real demand to change it. However, I feel (have felt on many occasions) your pain! We'll add it to the enhancement request list and see if we can make that change in an upcoming release.
In the meanwhile, if you really want to wrap the text there are two simple workarounds:
1) Use a drop-down list version of the TOC. The wrapping will be unnecessary or at least practically imperceptible.
2) Use a couple different text blocks; one that wraps and one that does not. In the normal (initial) state of your page show the non-wrapping version. If the user clicks the button to show the TOC, instead of just showing the TOC, run an action group which does three things: hides the non-wrapping text block, shows, the wrapping version, and shows the TOC. (Of course, you may also want to do the reverse when the TOC is hidden again: Run an action group to hide the TOC, hide the wrapping text block, and show the non-wrapping version again.)
What would I do? Probably neither of the above. I would use a non-wrapping version of the text block and just set the TOC to show "Always on top" of the text when it is called on-demand. :-)
Hope this helps.
- - Daryl
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