what is it called?

brainlag

I'm trying to find a script, but not knowing what it would be called makes it difficult.

There is text on a page, but the text is only X lines and after that, there's a "click for rest of comment" When you click, it expands the text without opening in a new page and it only expands the area selected. Newegg's comments are like this and so I've included an image of what it is, but I would like to know what it is called so I can incorporate it into my website.

Thanks.

tekky

its done using <DIV> tags... I used to have code that did this but that webpage is gone... not sure I could refind it either... it uses some jscript and of course the div tags...

[edit -- infact this link might help ya here --]

brainlag

That got me going in a good direction. I guess it's called "layers". Now I'll have to find out how to do what they do on NewEgg

Thanks for the help. The example page was really great and I got a few great ideas from there 😃

Cailean

Have you looked at NewEgg's source?
The HTML for each review entry looks like this:

<tr> 
  <td height="20" valign="top" class="BlackDescription">
    <div id='CReview1_b' style='display:block;'>teaser...<a class='blue' href='javascript:Toggle("CReview1");Toggle("CReview1_b");' id='xCReview1'>See complete review></a></div>
    <div id='CReview1' style='display:none;'>full article...</div>
    <br><br>
  </td>
</tr>

When you click the 'see complete review' link, the javascript toggles the first div (CReview1_b) from 'display: block' to 'display:none' and does the opposite for the other (CReview1).
The first div is merely the first X chars of the second div.
Those divs would be built server-side, in this case by ASP, but could just as easily be done with PHP using substr().