CHAPTER 16

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Clicking Entire Rows

During my involvement in developing an APEX application for a 10-inch tablet, one of my first observations was the need to expand what areas responded to “clicks.” The application was designed to run on either a desktop or tablet, but at the very least it had to be suitable for people selecting options with their fingers.

Our clients were construction workers and had big fingers, so action buttons on each row started to get replaced by the ability to tap (or click) anywhere in the row of a list of records. The response would be to navigate to the next page.

This chapter explores two methods of achieving this goal, ...

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