Descriptions for interactives

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Steven Clontz

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Jan 14, 2026, 2:01:17 PMJan 14
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Can <interactive/>s have <description>s? I tried the naive thing and it didn't seem to work, and I failed to find info on this in the PreTeXt Guide or sample article.

Steven Clontz

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Jan 14, 2026, 2:37:55 PMJan 14
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Looking at HTML itself, it seems iframes can have "title" attributes. I think a solution that supports longer descriptions (as are implemented for images), and indicates in this title that a description is available (as is done in images without a shortdescription) might be the right thing to do here?

Mitch Keller

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Jan 14, 2026, 6:21:03 PMJan 14
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What type of interactive are you using? interactive[@platform] was covered in https://github.com/PreTeXtBook/pretext/pull/2732, so mimicking that would be a good way to go for other interactives.

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Steven Clontz

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Jan 16, 2026, 5:11:12 PMJan 16
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We figured it out in the MathTech.org Discord -- we forgot to update PreTeXt to a recent version. 🤦‍♂️

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