Categories: archive-pro-matic, collapse-pro-matic

October 2013

December 2013

There are a couple of ways a button can be used as a collapse-o-matic trigger:

using a stylized div

shortcode:

[expand title="Push me" trigclass="noarrow my_button" targclass="my_content" tag="div"]this is the hidden content[/expand]

css:

.my_button {
background: #4B55E3;
color:  white;
padding:  5px;
width: 130px;
text-align: center;
}

.my_button.colomat-hover{
 background: #999;
text-decoration: none;
}

.my_content{
margin-left: 0;
}

Using a html button:

shortcode:

[expand title="Push me" trigclass="noarrow my_button" targclass="my_content" tag="button"]this is the hidden content[/expand]

Multiple Triggers

Add the format extra[n]-id to add extra external triggers for a single target:
<div id="test" class="collapseomatic">Trigger 1</div>
<div id="target-test" class="collapseomatic_content">You might think you can catch a monkey, but you can't. Monkeys are FAST!</div>
<div id="extra1-test" class="collapseomatic">Trigger 2</div>
<div id="extra2-test" class="collapseomatic">Trigger 3</div>

which should produce a little something like:

Multiple Targets

Multiple targets are available only in the Collapse-Pro-Matic plugin. To add extra targets, assign the ID in the format of target[n]-id as follows:
<div id="target1-monkey" class="collapseomatic_content">content</div>
<div id="monkey" class="collapseomatic">Trigger</div>
<div id="target2-monkey" class="collapseomatic_content">content</div>

which should produce a little something like:

Step One

Create each expand element using the title element as the image tag. Assign it a trigclass=”noarrow” and give it an alt attribute that makes sense:

[expand title="<img src='http://example.com/image.jpg' />" trigclass="noarrow" tag="div" alt="turtles one"]This is the content of the first image[/expand]

Step Two

Wrap each expand element in a div with a unique class. We used ‘birdwire‘ because it makes all the images nice and need in a row like… birds on a wire! Hmmm, maybe we should have used ducksrow. Anyway, each element will now look like so:

<div class="birdwire">[expand title="<img src='http://example.com/image.jpg' />" trigclass="noarrow" tag="div" alt="turtles one"]This is the content of the first image[/expand]</div>


Final Step

Add the following to your theme’s style.css:


.birdwire {
display: inline;
float: left;
margin-right: 1.625em;
width: 160px;
}


And Blam-O! The images line up and float left like so:

This is the content of the first image

This is the content of the second image

This is the content of the third image

After you will want to add <div style="clear: both"> </div> to force new content to show up below, fresh in it’s own line.

Highlander Grouping

Now, say you want to add highlander grouping. The code now would look like:
<div class="birdwire">[expand title="<img src='http://example.com/image.jpg' />" trigclass="noarrow" tag="div" alt="turtles one" rel="ninja-highlander"]This is the content of the first image[/expand]</div>


This is the content of the first image

This is the content of the second image

This is the content of the third image

Grid of Images

In the above examples, the targets are displayed directly below the related triggers. The following example shows how to place a line of image triggers that will display the targets below all images using the roll-your-own method:

The Triggers
<div class="birdwire">
<img id="nj1" src="https://spacedonkey.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ninja_turtles-150x150.jpg" class="collapseomatic noarrow" rel="ninjtee-highlander"/>
</div>
<div class="birdwire">
<img id="nj2" src="https://spacedonkey.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ninja_turtles-150x150.jpg" class="collapseomatic noarrow" rel="ninjtee-highlander"/>
</div>

The Targets

<div style="clear: both;"> </div>
<div id="target-nj1" class="collapseomatic_content">Target content for first trigger</div>
<div id="target-nj2" class="collapseomatic_content">Target content for second trigger</div>