readmore-readless

A jquery plugin for Read more and Read less functionality

Consider an HTML div like following:

<div id="readMoreReadLess">
    <ul class="item">
        <li>Item 1</li>
        <li class="details">Details of Item 1</li>
    </ul>

    <ul class="item">
        <li>Item 2</li>
        <li class="details">Details of Item 2</li>
    </ul>

    <ul class="item">
        <li>Item 3</li>
        <li class="details">Details of Item 3</li>
    </ul>
</div>

We can achieve the Read more and Read less functionality by simple code.

Usage 1: Use the plugin in default mode. There will be two items in the summary and on clicking the Read more link, all items would be displayed.

$("#readMoreReadLess").readMoreReadLess();

Usage 2: Setting the items present in the summary as 1. Only one item would appear in the summary. Use the plugin with items in summary set to 1

$("#readMoreReadLess").readMoreReadLess({
      itemInSummary: 1
});

Usage 3: Customising the Read More links with user defined text and css class.

$("#readMoreReadLess").readMoreReadLess({
        readMoreText: 'Show more items ...',
        readLessText: 'Show fewer items ...',
        readMoreClass:'button',
        readLessClass:'button'
});

options is an optional javascript object with parameters explained below.

Options

• itemClass A class name which is present on each item. default: 'item'

• itemInSummary The number of items that should appear in the summary view. default: 2

• readMoreClass A class name which would be applied to Read More link. default: 'read-more'

• readLessClass A class name which would be applied to Read less link. default: 'read-less'

• readMoreText The text for the link representing "Read more" default: 'Read more >> '

• readLessText The text for the link representing "Read less" default: 'Read less << '

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This software is made available under the open source MIT License. © 2013