Thread:Jemann/@comment-6042046-20130328043153

I digressed too much on your Silver Tree blog post, so I'll continue the conversation about non-Silver Tree stuff here: "Creating a template for a collapsible paragraph of text should be easy enough (CollapsiblePara? HiddenText?). But anything involving tables is generally so customized to the content that a template wouldn't really be appropriate.

If need be I can always mess with your tables to make them functional, but aesthetics is not my thing either (as a graphic designer I make a good programmer)."

I'm nixing the table templates; it looks way too hard. :P Plain expandible/collapsible templates should still help. Sure, "HiddenText" sounds like a fairly self-explanatory name for such a template.

How about templates HiddenText1 and HiddenText2? 1) Content that fully appears upon loading, but capable of collapsing (Shadowy section): http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Echo_Bazaar_Wiki:Sandbox 2) Content that's hidden upon loading, but capable of expanding (Dangerous section): http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Echo_Bazaar_Wiki:Sandbox

Now we can make lengthy pages like "Editing Guidelines" and "Quicklist" craaazy longer yet easy to navigate! I'm going to leave the creation of these templates to you because I personally possess a slender grasp of the pertinent code. :-| ...On second thought, maybe we should just write a short guide for expandible/collapsible code in "Editing Guidelines"? I think the hardest part is not being able to properly Preview the code; there should be a note about that either way.

As for the Iron Republic Days flow chart, I'll make a draft of some sort and show it here before trying to code it. I will need help making the cells/tables...DUUUNDUNDUN! Don't say I didn't warn you. Thanks in advance! *scampers away* 