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voliol
Posted on 08-23-24 04:47 PM Link | ID: 413

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Last view: 32 days 		Hello, I am wondering if there is a way to collapse text/markup, so some of it is hidden until the reader clicks a button? I'm used to forums having this feature, to hide big images/code/blocks of text that most readers of a thread may not be interested in reading/scrolling by, so not having it feels impractical and off. The Bay 12 Forums (which I am most used to, a simple machines deal) uses spoiler tagging for it, but here spoiler tagging instead works like on any modern website, boxing out the text without decreasing its size. Is there some other way to collapse/hide text?

And if there isn't, and it also isn't a planned feature, I assume you couldn't on the RHDN forum either? If so, how did you deal with it (I know there are some veterans here)? Was the standard practice just including images/code etc. unformatted, or linking to external sites like pastebin? Or not including them at all?

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Yuri Bacon
Posted on 08-23-24 05:17 PM Link | ID: 414

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If there is any way to do it, I'm not aware of it.

But! This forum does allow you to embed HTML / CSS into your post (that's how post layouts like mine work), so maybe you could find a way to "fake it" like that (IDK much about HTML / CSS tho TBH, so IDK if that alone would make it possible, but it's worth a shot).

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Rexius55
Posted on 08-23-24 07:30 PM (rev. 2 of 08-23-24 07:32 PM by Rexius55) Link | ID: 420

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There is a decent way to do it, using the "resize" and "overflow" properties in CSS.

Resize Property
Overflow Property

I don't have an example of this at this time but we'll see if I can make some example code for you that would probably go in your post header or somethin'.

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RT-55J
Posted on 08-23-24 08:24 PM Link | ID: 421

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Sadly, there is no way to do this
None whatsoever. :3c



Yuri Bacon
Posted on 08-23-24 08:40 PM (rev. 2 of 08-23-24 08:44 PM by Yuri Bacon) Link | ID: 422

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So, I spent a while on w3schools tryna figure out a good way to make a div expand on hover, and I think this code came out pretty well.

Hidden Text (hover to view)

So, here's the HTML/CSS code I whipped up to make this work. Feel free to use it. I made very liberal use of the Preview button as I made this post :P

<style>
.hidden
{
height:1.2em;
width:3.6em;
overflow:hidden;
padding:5px;
background:#555555;
color:white;
}
.hidden:hover
{
width:99%;
height:auto;
overflow:visible;
}
</style>Hidden Text (hover to view)
<div class="hidden">Hidden

Your Text Here!</div>


EDIT: Just saw RT-55J's neat little trick after I made my post, but damn that is simple and clever!

<details><summary>Sadly, there is no way to do this</summary>
<br>None whatsoever. :3c
<br></details>


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voliol
Posted on 08-23-24 08:55 PM Link | ID: 423

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Last view: 32 days 		Huh, html/css in posts, funky stuff.
[Tries to play around with css/html before getting ninja'd by Yuri Bacon, who then points out RT-55J had it working and posted before the playing around even started]

Thanks a lot!

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MacUser
Posted on 08-23-24 09:19 PM Link | ID: 424

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LennaROM
Posted on 08-25-24 06:41 AM Link | ID: 475
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Yeah its one of those things that theres no easy BBCode tag for, but that you can do manually if you know how

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