Plugin Author
Baden
(@baden03)
Nested collapse elements using the roll-your-own method means that you would need to ‘nest’ one or more collapse elements inside the target content of another. In your example, you do not explain where you want the “other characters” group to be nested.
Do you want to simply have the core cast of characters listed, and then at the same root level a collapse element for ‘other characters’ that expands nested elements of the other characters? What happens to other expanded characters when one of these nested characters is expanded?
What we recommend you do is really pay attention to how the html is structured and how the different class-names, id-names and rel tags work together.
Hello, yeah it’s very difficult to understand the class names and ID names. I’m still struggling on getting certain elements to work.
Not sure if I’ll get the naming taxonomies correct when I describe this, but here goes:
I would like to display the “main characters.” Just a row of characters exactly as I have it on on http://tobylotak.com/cast/. Then have a “More Characters” dropdown which will then display the other characters. Those will function just like the link above. I just need a way to hide a chunk of characters under “more characters” When you first see the cast page so you’re not confronted with 25+ characters all at once.
So the function of “more characters” it will drop down, displaying the icons which are also roll-your-own. Their content will be displayed in the same area that the “main characters” content is. It’ll also have the highlander effect, so only one character out of BOTH sections can be selected at once. Does that make sense?
Also, thank you for your help so far. This is one of the most responsive plugin supports I have been on!
Plugin Author
Baden
(@baden03)
Ok, a couple of questions. Are you generating each characters expand element programmatically in your template? Or are you manually creating each element by hand?
As for one character out of both sections, this is accomplished using highlander grouping as described in the documentation.
Can you post an example of the code you are using. Just a few elements (not all of them) would be fine for us to give you an example structure.
Hello, manually doing it in the Edit Text (not visual) section.
I use the highlander for each character in the sections. Here’s an example:
At the top of the page:
<div class="birdwire">[expand title="<img src='http://tobylotak.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/iconmarszenka.jpg' />" tag="div" alt="Marszenka" id="marszenka" trigclass="noarrow" rel="animal-highlander"]</div>
Beneath that:
<br style="clear:both" />
<div class="collapseomatic_content" id="target-marszenka"><img class="alignleft" alt="" src="http://tobylotak.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/marszenka.jpg" /><span class="cast">Marszenka Jabłońska</span>
<strong>Height:</strong> 5'2"
<strong>Ethnicity:</strong> Polish
<strong>Personality:</strong> soft-hearted, stubborn, intelligent, brave, outspoken, proud, loyal, vivacious, combative, pious, wise, selfless
A farmer's daughter, Marszenka was raised to appreciate the value of honesty and hard work. Her best examples were her parents, particularly her father Juliek who worked three times as hard as he needed to so she could attend school. Her elder brother's entrance into a military career was enough of a drain on the family's resources that Marszy had to drop out before graduating, but she traded her many domestic skills for private tutoring in her favorite subjects and dreams of someday finishing school and maybe even attending college. Marszenka is vastly interested in the world around her, and cares deeply about the people inhabiting it -- her kind, spirited nature wins her many friends, and her courage and faith lend her strength through impossibly difficult times.
[nggtags gallery=marszenka]</div>
Plugin Author
Baden
(@baden03)
If you are still working on this and want help, you have two choices:
1. quick and $15 cheap support pack: http://plugins.twinpictures.de/plugins/collapse-o-matic/support/
2. or we will try and get to it when we can if you email temp admin access to: info [ at ] twinpictures [ dot ] de
Howdy! Thank you kindly. I will have to try 2 for now as I don’t have an income at the moment. I will be sending it out shortly!
Plugin Author
Baden
(@baden03)
OK, we set up a small example of how this can be accomplished on your site.
Please let us know if you get it to work as desired.
