For certain situations, having collapsible content areas defined in an article or template may be useful for saving space or improving usability of information in long articles. These may be customized by using certain custom attributes, and combinations of class and id attributes.
You can copy the following templates to your wiki for easy creation of simple collapsible sections:
{{Collapse top}}{{Collapse bottom}}
Both templates are required. Simply place {{Collapse top}} above the content to be collapsed, on its own line, and place {{Collapse bottom}} below the content, also on its own line.
Manual instructions
Adapted from Resource Loader Modules documentation:
- Default toggle link: Add
mw-collapsibleto an element'sclassattribute with some content and save the page. The inner content of this element will be treated as collapsible content. Prepended to the element, before the collapsible content, is a toggle-link with a localized label (collapsible-expand, collapsible-collapse). To set the initial state to collapsed, addmw-collapsedto theclassattribute. - Custom label (HTML5 only): Using the
data-collapsetextanddata-expandtextattributes defines custom text for the toggle labels added by the script. This retains the default behavior of the script, but only changes the text used for the toggle links. Some browsers in common use may not support this feature. - Remote toggle: To completely replace the toggle link and explicitly define the content area to be collapsed (which may be different from where the toggle link is placed), add an
idatribute with a value containing amw-customcollapsible-prefix for the collapsible element, and a correspondingclassattribute with amw-customtoggle-prefix for the toggle link.
Examples
Default toggle link
Input:
{| class="infobox"
! Foo
| Bar
|-
! Lorem
| Ipsum
|-
! More info
|<!--
-->
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 100%;"
! Head
! Top
|-
| Cell
| content
|-
| This table is collapsible
| Because it has the "mw-collapsible" class
|-
| It was initially hidden, because it
| had the "mw-collapsed" class
|}<!--
-->
|-
|}
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible" style="color:#000;width: 400px;">
This is text is collapsible.
</div>
Output:
| Foo | Bar | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lorem | Ipsum | ||||||||
| More info |
|
This is text is collapsible.
Custom Label
Input:
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" data-expandtext="+" data-collapsetext="-"
! Column 1 !! Column 2 !! Column 3
|-
| 1 || 2 || 3
|-
| 4 || 5 || 6
|-
| 7 || 8 || 9
|}
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" data-expandtext="Open" data-collapsetext="Close" style="width:300px;">
This text is not hidden
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
This text is all hidden
And is only shown
When it is uncollapsed.
</div></div>
Output:
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 |
This text is not hidden
This text is all hidden
And is only shown
When it is uncollapsed.
Remote toggle
Input:
<div class="mw-customtoggle-myDivision mw-customtoggle-myDivision2" style="display:inline-block;background:rgba(128,128,128,0.5);color:white;padding:5px;border-radius:5px;outline:none;user-select:none">Toggle all Spoiler</div>
<div class="mw-customtoggle-myDivision" style="color:#070">Troll div in middle</div>
<div class="mw-customtoggle-myDivision" style="display:inline-block;background:rgba(128,128,128,0.5);color:white;padding:5px;border-radius:5px;outline:none;user-select:none">Spoiler 1</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-myDivision">
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="background:rgba(255,255,255,.5);margin-top:10px;padding:10px;border-radius:5px">
¡HI! I am a spoiler
</div>
<div class="mw-customtoggle-myDivision2" style="display:inline-block;background:rgba(128,128,128,0.5);color:white;padding:5px;border-radius:5px;outline:none;user-select:none">Spoiler 2</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-myDivision2">
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="background:rgba(255,255,255,.5);margin-top:10px;padding:10px;border-radius:5px">
¡HI! I am a spoiler
</div>
</div></div>
Output:
Toggle all Spoiler
Troll div in middle
Spoiler 1
¡HI! I am a spoiler
Spoiler 2
¡HI! I am a spoiler
Change text for other
Input:
<div class="mw-customtoggle-myFirstText mw-customtoggle-myOtherText" style="color:#c00">Click here to toggle the element</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible" id="mw-customcollapsible-myFirstText">
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="wikitable"
! Column 1 !! Column 2 !! Column 3
|-
| 1 || 2 || 3
|-
| 4 || 5 || 6
|-
| 7 || 8 || 9
|}
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-myOtherText">
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="wikitable" style="width:15%;"
|-
!Row 1 || 1 || 2 || 3
|-
!Row 2 || 4 || 5 || 6
|-
!Row 3 || 7 || 8 || 9
|}
</div>
</div>
<div class="mw-customtoggle-myFirstText mw-customtoggle-myOtherText" style="color:#0a0">Clicking will toggle it also!</div>
Output:
Click here to toggle the element
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 |
| Row 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Row 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Row 3 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
Clicking will toggle it also!
Removing Brackets From Toggle
The following style rule may be added to the wiki's stylesheet to hide the brackets in the default or custom label toggle links:
span.mw-collapsible-bracket {
display: none;
}