Posted by ubersoft on November 14, 2012 at 1:19am
Over at this link, there's something interesting:
The First Read section at NBCNews has this interesting effect where an article is sort of "tucked in" to the "Show more" link, and when you click the "Show more" link the rest of the article expands. It's neat! Is there a Drupal plugin that does the same thing?
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Not sure about a module, but
Not sure about a module, but it might just be using Ajax or similar loading of the node without refreshing the page?
It might be...
... but I sure don't know how I'd go about making Drupal do that on my own. That's why I was hoping there was a module. :-)
Heh, nothing that simple I'm
Heh, nothing that simple I'm afraid.
Looks like some of it at least is done with CSS. Inspecting the page with Firebug shows the entire article is actually there, they just give the article a fixed body height and then overflow: hidden the rest. The faded text effect is done with a z-indexed png image so some of the text shows through. Not sure how they are doing the "reveal" on clicking the Show More link. That should get you started
article footer { margin:0 auto; display:block; font-family:arial, sans-serif; font-size:14px; position:relative; width:913px !important; z-index:15; background: url('images/white-fade.png') top right repeat-x; overflow:visible; padding-top:100px; margin-top:-100px; }