show More/Less

JavaScript library that truncates text (html experimentally), list or table by chars, elements or row and shows/hides text blocks, elements or table row with Show More and Show Less.

Demo

See the demo - example

Clone the repo and install dependencies

git clone
cd show-more

yarn
// or
npm i

Watch/Build the app

Watch the app, just call:

yarn dev
// or
npm run dev

Build app:

yarn prod
// or
npm run prod

How to use it:

Add js library to html

<!-- html -->
<script src="/path/to/showMore.min.js"></script>

CDN

HTML

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/tomickigrzegorz/show-more@1.1.7/dist/js/showMore.min.js"></script>

CSS

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/tomickigrzegorz/show-more@1.1.7/dist/css/show-more.min.css" />

-- OR --

<!-- css -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/path/to/show-more.min.css" />

-- OR --

/* styling buttons */
.show-more-btn {
  margin: auto;
  cursor: pointer;
  color: #0095e5;
  white-space: nowrap;
  transition: color 300ms ease-in-out;
  border: 0;
  font-size: 0.8em;
  background: transparent;
}
.show-more-btn:hover {
  color: red;
}
.hidden {
  display: none;
}

---

For text → live example:

<div class="element" data-config='{ "type": "text", "limit": 120, "more": "→ show more", "less": "← less" }'>
  Lorem ipsum, dolor ... ...
</div>

---

For list → live example:

<ul class="element" data-config='{ "type": "list", "limit": 5, "element": "li", "more": "↓ show more", "less": "↑ less", "number": true }'>
  <li>item 1</li>
  <li>item 2</li>
  ...
</ul>

---

For table → live example:

<table class="element" data-config='{ "type": "table", "limit": 4, "more": "↓ show more", "less": "↑ less", "number": true }'>
  ...
</table>

---

Only show more button → live example:

<div class="element links-style" data-config='{ "type": "list", "limit": 5, "more": "→ show more" }'>
  <a href="#">Administracja biur,</a>
</div>

---

Show the number next to the button → live example:

<ul class="element display-inline" data-config='{ "type": "list", "limit": 3, "element": "li", "more": "→ show more", "less": "← less", "number": true }'>
  <li>Usługi murarskie i tynkarskie,</li>
  ...
</ul>

Only the ellipsis → live example:

<div class="element" data-config='{ "type": "text", "limit": 100, "nobutton": true }'>
  It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable
  content of a page when looking at its layout.
</div>

HTML tags → live example:

<div class="element" data-config='{ "type": "text", "limit": 100, "more": "→ show more", "less": "← less" }'>
  <b>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</b>, amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Libero
  deserunt dignissimos blanditiis animi esse veritatis, quasi, ab, commodi
  itaque quisquam delectus inventore perspiciatis corrupti!
  <table>
    <thead>
      <th>one</th>
      <th>two</th>
      <th>three</th>
    </thead>
    <tr>
      <td>a</td>
      <td>b</td>
      <td>c</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>d</td>
      <td>e</td>
      <td>f</td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  Sequi debitis suscipit molestias, eligendi ab odit ullam. Vero eius debitis
  quis corporis, possimus veniam sit fugit aliquid.
  <img src="https://grzegorztomicki.pl/images/maroko/1200/IMG_0738.jpg" /> Fuga,
  libero eaque consequuntur ipsa esse omnis, ad eius laboriosam reprehenderit
  iste quaerat vitae quis corrupti saepe veniam, ullam placeat voluptatum sint
  dolore sunt quo. Voluptate fugit quo architecto laboriosam
  <i>ipsam pariatur delectus iusto consectetur provident</i> odio amet tempora
  veniam velit at deleniti sint soluta accusamus, praesentium necessitatibus
  maxime.<br /><br />
  Aliquam necessitatibus porro dolores atque aliquid itaque, ad maiores!
</div>

Callback function

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
  // text, table, list, elelemnts
  new ShowMore('.element', {
    onMoreLess: (type, object) => {
      // type = less/more and full object
      console.log(type, object);
    },
  });
});

Own regular expressions

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
  new ShowMore('.element', {
    // you can also add your own regular expression,
    // it will only apply to text elements.
    regex: {
      image: {
        match: /<img([\w\W]+?)[/]?>/g,
        replace: '',
      },
    },
  });
});

Global configuration

If you have one type of items that you want to shorten, you can add global configuration, you don't need to add data-config to each item. Below is an example:

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
  new ShowMore('.element', {
    config: {
      type: "text",
      limit: 120,
      more: "→ read more",
      less: "← read less"
    }
  });
});

You can also mix, global configuration + data-config. In such cases, the global configuration object will merge with data-config. For example, we have 10 texts to shorten, then we add the global configuration, but we also have a table that we want to shorten, in this case we add data-config to table - see table example

You don't need to add all the variables in the data-config. For example, if we have more/less buttons in global configuration then in data-config we do not have to declare them, but if we add them, they will overwrite their settings in globalen configuration.

Configuration of the plugin

element	require	description
your-class	✔	name of the class after which we want to add support for showing/hiding text, list or table
data-config	✔	embedding JSON in the html, the entire configuration of a particular element
type	✔	we have three type after which it will be hidden [text, list or table]
limit	✔	text after how many characters to hide the text and insert show more/less list or table after how many elements/rows hide the rest and insert show more/less
after		this parameter checks how much text is after the trimmed text the limit parameter, if the text is less than the after parameter does not add a more/less button`^.
element		on the parameter we will create an html element and put in the text show more/less
more/less		is the text and chars that appears after the text, list or table e.g. > show more and < show less
number		number of hidden items to show more/less e.g. -> show more 3, only works for list and table
ellipsis		By default, adding an ellipsis to shortened text can be turned off by setting 'ellipsis': false
nobutton		Diable showing the read more/less button, by default 'nobutton': false
regex		adding your own regular expressions. It is an object with two parameters match and replace, see example below
btnClass		Button class name. Default: show-more-btn
btnClassAppend		Opportunity to add additional classes to the button
onMoreLess		callback function

^ Let's say we have 20 records with text and we determine that the text is to be trimmed after 100 characters in each record, it may happen that in several records the text is very short and has 110 characters, so show more/less will appear after 100 characters and after clicking an additional 10 characters, it will look funny. To prevent this, we add the "after": 50 parameter, which means that the hidden text must be at least 50 characters. Otherwise, show more/less will not appear. The same after can be applied to lists, elements and table records

Number of records counted in the table tr based on all tr of thead, tbody and tfoot

Browser support

show-more supports all major browsers including IE 10 and above

Configuration for IE:

local files

• dist/js/showMore.ie.min.js

cdn

• https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/tomickigrzegorz/show-more@1.1.7/dist/js/showMore.ie.min.js

cdn polyfill from npm

• https://polyfill.io/v3/polyfill.min.js?features=Object.assign

IE demo: docs/ie.html

License

This project is available under the MIT license.