Overview
Icon Description User Items are combined to create icon legends, a list of icons used on your site including a description of what the icons mean. Include one Icon Description User Item for each icon you wish to describe, and group the Icon Descriptions under a SubPage. Second Site will assemble one or more contiguous Icon Description User Items into a table where the icons appear in column 1 and the descriptions in column 2.
Style attributes for the table that encloses the Icon Descriptions may be adjusted using the parameters in the Stylesheets.System.Icon Legend Table section.
Style attributes for the cells in the Icon Legend table may be adjusted using the parameters in the Stylesheets.System.Icon Description Cells section.
Example
- Icon Legend
- familya
- familyb
- familyc
- familyd
The diagram shows a SubPage named "Icon Legend" with four nested Icon Description User Items. That arrangement would create a page with a table of four rows, one row per icon. Each icon would presumably be used to identify members of a family where those members have a custom flag named Family set to "A", "B", "C", or "D".
For an explanation of how flag icons are named, see the Icons Section.
Edit Icon Description
The Edit Icon Description window controls the properties associated with an Icon Description User Item.
Icon
Choose the icon being described using the Icon pull-down menu. The pull-down menu includes all the images that may be used on the site including both traditional icons as well as other graphic files.
The list includes image codes that are used in some Themes and not in others, which is how all image pull-down menus work in Second Site. If the Image Preview does not show an image, then the image is not present in the Theme folder or Input (-i) folder and will not appear in the output. If you are describing an Icon that you intend to add via the Icons Section, add the icon before adding the Icon Description User Item.
The icon will appear in column 1 of the table.
Enabled
See Enabled on the User Items page.
Description
Use the Description property to describe how the icon is used on the site.
