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Nested Collapse Elements with Highlander Grouping

Here is a typical nested collapse group with highlander grouping

[expand title="state1" id="state1" togglegroup="state-highlander"]
   [expandsub1 title="city1" id="city1" togglegroup="city-highlander"]bar1 bar2[/expandsub1]  
   [expandsub1 title="city2" id="city2" togglegroup="city-highlander"]bar3 bar4[/expandsub1]
[/expand]

[expand title="state2" id="state2" togglegroup="state-highlander"]
   [expandsub1 title="city3" id="city3" togglegroup="city-highlander"]bar5 bar6[/expandsub1]  
   [expandsub1 title="city4" id="city4" togglegroup="city-highlander"]bar7 bar8[/expandsub1]
[/expand]

Notice how the main level and nested sub-elements have their own highlander grouping defined. This makes it so the main level items do not affect the nested children expand/collapse states.
This is how it works:

state1
city1
bar1 bar2
city2
bar3 bar4
state2
city3
bar5 bar6
city4
bar7 bar8

Now to do the exact same thing using the roll-your-own method:

<div class="collapseomatic" id="state1"  title="state1" data-togglegroup="state-highlander">state1</div>
<div id="target-state1" class="collapseomatic_content">
   <div class="collapseomatic" id="city1" title="city1" data-togglegroup="city-highlander">city1</div>
   <div id="target-city1" class="collapseomatic_content">bar1 bar2</div>
   <div class="collapseomatic" id="city2" title="city2" data-togglegroup="city-highlander">city2</div>
   <div id="target-city2" class="collapseomatic_content ">bar3 bar4</div>
</div>

<div class="collapseomatic" id="state2" title="state2" data-togglegroup="state-highlander">state2</div>
<div id="target-state2" class="collapseomatic_content">
   <div class="collapseomatic" id="city3" title="city3" data-togglegroup="city-highlander">city3</div>
   <div id="target-city3" class="collapseomatic_content">bar5 bar6</div>
   <div class="collapseomatic " id="city4" title="city4" data-togglegroup="city-highlander">city4</div>
   <div id="target-city4" class="collapseomatic_content">bar7 bar8</div>
</div>
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Collapse-Pro-Matic Roll Your with Scroll To Elements

The roll-your-own method has already been documented, however, what if you wanted to create your own sroll-to targets for each element? How can we do this with roll-your-own?

First we create an example using the shortcode:

[expand title="trigger text" findme="auto"]hidden content[/expand]

trigger text
hidden content

Now we re-create that using the roll-your own elements:

The Trigger

<div class="collapseomatic find-me" id="my_example" title="trigger text" data-offset="-60" data-findme="auto">trigger text</div>
trigger text

The Target

<div id="target-my_example" class="collapseomatic_content ">Target Content</div>
Target Content
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Print-O-Matic External Buttons

this is a test element


As of version 1.6.7c we introduced a new printstyle value ‘external’ for Print-O-Matic. Now it is possible to create an external button to trigger a print in a less-hacky way. Here is an example of this works: To print the following div with an id of ‘print_me_please’:

<div id="print_me_please">This is our target print element</div>

First we create a kind of roll-your-own print trigger. The details that must be included are:

  1. a unique id
  2. a print-o-matic class such as printomatic or printomatictext
  3. a data-print_target attribute

For example:

<button id="my_print_button" class="printomatic" data-print_target="#print_me_please">Print Trigger</button>

Which will output:

The final thing we need to do is include a hidden print trigger using a print-me shortcode with the same id as our external trigger and the new external printstyle attribute. This shortcode must be placed someplace on the same page, and will load in all the required scripts and settings to make the print trigger work correctly.

[print-me id="my_print_button" printstyle="external"/]


This shortcode will not output anything to the page.
That’s it. You are done! Let us know on the WordPress Support Forum if you require any further assistance.