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October 28, 2003

Extended Entry Q?

Is there a way to do an extended entry to where you do the first part of a post, expand the extended entry, then have the last part of the post? Or am I friggin crazy?

Top of post...
extended entry >>>
Bottom of post...

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 11:24 PM | Comments (151) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 You mean besides the normal extended entry that you enter in the bottom part of the "new entry" screen?

Posted by: Jennifer @ at October 29, 2003 03:44 AM

2 Yes, I have a long entry that I would like to collapse the middle.

beginning text
beginning text
beginning text
>>>
collapsed text / expandable text
collapsed text / expandable text
collapsed text / expandable text
>>>
>>>
rest of text
rest of test
rest of text

Posted by: The Bartender @ at October 29, 2003 04:51 AM

3 I've never seen something like that before. Hence, it must be impossible

Posted by: Daniel @ at October 29, 2003 01:00 PM

4 Yes, using a collapsing text script like the one I use for links in my sidebar. Some problems are that you'll need to put the script reference in all of your templates (anywhere you want the collapsing text to work), I only know how to do it with lists so the collapsed stuff would be in a bulleted or numbered list, and it doesn't work for Mozilla browsers.

Interested?

Posted by: Jim @ at October 29, 2003 01:13 PM

5 Umm, seems like a lot of work to ME.

Posted by: Jennifer @ at October 29, 2003 01:42 PM

6 Just the setup, really. Editing all of the templates where posts are generated. After that it's just using different formatting in the posts where you want to collapse something.

Posted by: Jim @ at October 29, 2003 03:31 PM

7 Jim - I'm interested! Let's do it.

Posted by: The Bartender @ at October 29, 2003 10:03 PM

8 Instructions and files now available here. Email me if you have troubles with implementation.

Posted by: Jim @ at October 30, 2003 01:22 PM

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