Collapsible Subsections

Summary

This article will describe how to use collapsible subsections in your book.

Instructions

Four Pressbooks themes support collapsible subsections: McLuhan (default), Clarke, Asimov, and Jacobs. Other themes will not work.

Enable Collapsible Subsections

  • Go to Appearance > Theme Options > Web Options from the left-hand menu of your book's dashboard
  • Scroll down to "Collapse Sections" and click the box next to "Collapse sections within front matter, chapters, and back matter"
  • Click "Save Changes"

Using Collapsible Subsections

  • Access your chapter from the "Organize" page
  • Create the headings that you'd like to become your subsection titles, if they aren't already in the body of your text
  • Highlight the heading and tag it with a "Heading 1" paragraph style from the toolbar
  • Repeat for each subsection
  • Click "Save"

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