Hey there, I'm still implemting my site on my site, and I realized that with a lot of content presented in teaser mode it can quickly become "bloated"... especially on my theme where the content region is quite small...

On the other hand, I would love to let the users read the teasers directly from their mysite page, so i thought about this solution:

How about having a collapsible teaser? Users could click on the teaser to expand, and the they could close it, if they are not interested to read it... We could simply add a simple arrow beside each list element and that arrow would be used to open/close teasers! y we get the best of both worlds as we get the simplicity of node lists and the usefulness of teasers...

Good idea?
Patchak

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Version: 5.x-2.6 » master
Component: - Style plugin » - Layout plugin

Maybe, but potentially confusing as well. The entire content element is currently collapsible. So you would have a collapsible title bar and a collapsible node element?

Plus, if user's don't want teaser, they can turn them off.

This is a feature request against HEAD. It would require some new JS and a change to the layout structure. If you want to submit a patch, go for it.

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Remember also that you can restrict the available layouts for your users. If only the single-column display looks good, then remove the other files. See the README for details.

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Hi there, thanks for the answer...

I was thinking about this, and waht would be really cool is to have some sort of "pop up" with jquer that would show the teasers's content when a user would click on a title. Then if the person is really interested there would be some "read this text" link to go directly to the node.

Does this sound better than a collapsible (collapsed) node title?

Patchak

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Yes. That should be possible with jQuery. The teaser element is available to all layouts, even if it isn't shown. I'd love to see a patch for that.

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The pop up teaser is in the new format I attached to another issue. Will submit it as soon as the new site is in production and I know all is working fine.

The idea is to have lists of node titles but when you click on a title the teaser pops up!

Patchak

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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

File in question is http://drupal.org/files/issues/preview.theme_.txt