How to create a read more button

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I have this code below it's a tab consisting of objects from multidimensional array the problem is that i'm trying to add a show more button on every one of my paragraph but i cant seem to find anything online that works for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

What I have tried:

Here is my Fiddle[^]

Posted 20-Jun-18 22:35pm

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Updated 20-Jun-18 23:02pm

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User 7429338 · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-20T23:03:00

Solution 1

There's two things wrong with your code:

- $content is not correctly referenced
- You're not linking jquery-ui.js, which is required for switchClass

Try this: JSFiddle[^]

Posted 20-Jun-18 23:03pm

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Member 13863747 21-Jun-18 5:11am

That worked perfectly but may i ask because i'm getting this example of button from stack so im not sure how this guy set the amount of word he want to show

[no name] 21-Jun-18 5:13am

The number of words is not set directly. In the collapsed state, p has class hideContent, which has height 2em (= two lines). In the expanded case, p has class showContent which has height auto (= as high as needed to fit the text).

Member 13863747 21-Jun-18 5:17am

oh ok that make sense one last thing im not too sure why i cant remove the quotation marks from the buttons

[no name] 21-Jun-18 5:19am

Change this line:

button.innerHTML = ` "<a href="#">Show more</a>"`;

To:

button.innerHTML = ` <a href="#">Show more</a>`;