This is an example of expanding text. If you click on the drop-down hotspot ("Example…") again, this expanded text will become hidden once more.
Expanding text is a feature that lets you "scrunch up" content in a paragraph in your topic. Let's say you have a bulleted list in a topic. After each bullet is a feature of the software program that you are explaining. You have given a detailed description of each feature, and now the topic seems to be getting quite lengthy. So you decide to condense each bulleted item so that users initially see only the name of the feature, which appears as a link (also called an "expanding text hotspot"). When users click that hotspot, the hidden content (i.e., the rest of the paragraph) "expands" and is displayed after the hotspot. When users click the hotspot again, the content becomes hidden once more.
How to insert expanding text into a topic
In the XML Editor, type and format the content that will become the expanding text.
Select Insert>Expanding Text .
The Insert Expanding Text dialog opens. The paragraph (or the portion of it that you selected) is displayed, with the first word highlighted. This first word will be used as the hotspot, unless you modify it by highlighting more of the paragraph. 
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Click OK.
The selection is now surrounded by brackets in the XML Editor. The hotspot appears with a small "T" and arrow next to it. The font used in the expanding text depends on the settings specified for the <MadCap|expandingHead> and <MadCap|expandingBody> styles in your style sheet. Show me…
to save your work.
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