Use ellipses… but only when necessary
August 19th, 2007
I’ve blogged about how important consistency is. Well, here is yet another case:
If a button takes you to another dialog, put an ellipsis on it:
If a button simply performs an action, no ellipsis:
Just save those glorious ellipses for when they’ll be needed again. And if a message box is required to confirm the action, no big deal. The main point of clicking that button is performing the action.
But what I find vomitous is how often applications get this wrong or are just plain inconsistent about when they do it and when they don’t… even on the same dialog:
So I beg you, I plead you. Watch your ellipses!
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