Possible to "expand" the text displayed??

[NeedledNovice]

I am impressed by sites which carry short text descriptions and other elements of information, where you can click to "see more".

I can understand that it could be easy enough to do this by having a route from "see more" to another page which DOES give all the text from a database. But then, the only way to go back to the abbreviated information (presumably) would be via a "go back" process .... and if one used a Javascript process, could one end up being shuttled back & forth between these two pages for ever?

Or is there a "switch" function of some kind within PHP, that will allow me to give the page-reader the option to click to see more, click to see less, click to see more ... as they wish.

A page of php is not like the old fashioned Basic language, where you can embed go-to's in the script, is it?

Note - mucho noviso

[rincewind456]

As far as I understand what you want, it would be done by showing or hiding a <div> element by using JavaScript.

There is an example here.

[NeedledNovice]

Thank you so much for that.

It looks as if it could be moving me towards an answer - except, of course, that it does not work with Firefox. :bemused:

[rincewind456]

Here is another, maybe more up to date link to look at.