TwistyContrib

Usage examples

If the contrib is properly installed (and JavaScript is enabled in your browser) you should see two folding sections below.

Basic Twisty

<span id="demo1show" class="twistyTrigger twistyMakeVisible"><button class="twikiButton"> Unfold </button></span>
<span id="demo1hide" class="twistyTrigger twistyHidden"><button class="twikiButton"> Fold </button></span>
<span id="demo1toggle" class="twistyContent twistyMakeHidden">
my twisty content
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Twisty with placeholder text

<span id="demo2show" class="twistyTrigger twistyMakeVisible"><a href="#">Expand...</a> <span class="twistyPlaceholder">Hamlet is without question the most famous play in the English language...</span></span>
<span id="demo2hide" class="twistyTrigger twistyHidden"><a href="#">Collapse...</a></span>
<span id="demo2toggle" class="twistyContent twistyMakeHidden">
Hamlet is without question the most famous play in the English language. Probably written in 1601 or 1602, the tragedy is a milestone in Shakespeare's dramatic development.
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Expand... Hamlet is without question the most famous play in the English language... Collapse... Hamlet is without question the most famous play in the English language. Probably written in 1601 or 1602, the tragedy is a milestone in Shakespeare's dramatic development.

Twisty made easy

Manual written by Harald Joerg. Examples require Spreadsheet Plugin to work (installed by default).

Some of my TWiki users are impressed by the optical effect of what can be done with TWiki:Plugins.TwistyPlugin - and they keep asking me: "How do I do that? I don't understand the documentation, and I don't understand the raw text of your topics!"

They indeed have a point here. The docs aren't easily understood. It isn't easy to pick all the variables needed from a single example, and just copypasting sometimes fails in embarrassing ways if non-unique id attributes are present in a topic. Maybe it is easy for a power user, but it surely isn't easy enough. There ought to be a way to make it easier.

Well, here you are.

Just set a couple of site preferences, and your users will immediately understand your examples and start writing their own twisties. And what's more: They'll do so in a consistent way, across all your topics in all webs.

You Write

   * Set FLIP = <span id="twid_%CALC{$SETM(twisty_id, + 1)$GET(twisty_id)}%show" class="twistyTrigger twistyMakeVisible">
       <a href="#">more...</a>
     </span>
     <span id="twid_%CALC{$GET(twisty_id)}%hide" class="twistyTrigger twistyHidden">
       <a href="#">close</a>
     </span>
     <div id="twid_%CALC{$GET(twisty_id)}%toggle" class="twistyContent twistyMakeHidden">
   * Set FLOP = </div>

Your Users Write

   * *Brace and parenthesize in K&R style* 
     %FLIP% 
     When setting out a code block, use the K&R style of bracketing.  
     That is, place the opening brace at the end of the construct that controls the block. ... 
     %FLOP%
   * *Separate your control keywords from the following opening bracket* 
     %FLIP% 
     Control structures regulate the dynamic behaviour of a program, so the keywords 
     of control structures are the most critical components of a program. ... 
     %FLOP%

You See

• Brace and parenthesize in K&R style more... close
  When setting out a code block, use the K&R style of bracketing. That is, place the opening brace at the end of the construct that controls the block. ...
• Separate your control keywords from the following opening bracket more... close
  Control structures regulate the dynamic behaviour of a program, so the keywords of control structures are the most critical components of a program. ...

All on, all off

You can toggle all Twisties on or off at once by putting a link or button on the page with class twistyExpandAll or twistyCollapseAll.

<button class="twistyExpandAll twikiButton">Expand all</button> 
<button class="twistyCollapseAll twikiButton">Collapse all</button>

Creates these controls:

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When you want to use links, write:

#VarTOGGLE

<a href="#TOGGLE" class="twistyExpandAll">Expand all</a> 
<a href="#TOGGLE" class="twistyCollapseAll">Collapse all</a>

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