User Interface

This topic describes the elements that appear on a configured Feed Reader widget.

This page discusses:

See Also
Customizing Preferences

List of Articles

By default, the widget displays the list of all the articles it has retrieved from the RSS feed it was configured with.

This list of articles displays the following elements:

Element Description
A lighter font Indicates that you have read this article.

See Reading an Article.
Indicates that the article contains audio content that you can download from the widget.

See Downloading Audio Content.

Open Article

When you click an article title from the list of articles, the corresponding article opens. Depending on the Open directly on the site preference of your widget, this article either opens its source web page in a new window or opens in the widget.

When the article opens in the widget, the list of articles appears in a sidebar if the widget is large enough. In this sidebar, the list of articles indicates the article that is currently open with a blue vertical bar and a gray background.

The following table lists all the commands that are available when an article opens in the widget:

Icon Description


Collapses the sidebar. Only appears when the widget is large enough to display the sidebar.


Expands the sidebar. Only appears when the widget is large enough to display the sidebar.
¼ Marks the article as unread.

See Marking an Article as Unread.
½ Marks the article as read.

See Marking an Article as Unread.
q Allows you to generate a public link to share the article with another user of the platform.

See Sharing an Article.
p Closes the article to display the list of available articles only.