topic 'Read more...' expandable/collapsible text in Classic Esri Story Maps Questions

'Read more...' expandable/collapsible text

RossMcDonald1 — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:20:38 GMT

Hi! I have a Map Journal project where I would like to allow a 'read more...' button to to expand additional text for a particular section. Is this possible without having to change the template and self-host it? Could this CSS and HTML functionality be white-listed for use?

ie:

<style>

details {
border: 0px solid #aaa;
border-radius: 4px;
padding: .5em .5em 0;
}

summary {
font-weight: bold;
margin: -.5em -.5em 0;
padding: .5em;
}

details[open] {
padding: .5em;
}

details[open] summary {
border-bottom: 0px solid #aaa;
margin-bottom: .5em;
}

</style>

<div>
<p> A summary with a little bit of text.</p>

<p>
<details>
<summary>Additional details...</summary>Details, with a lot more text.</details>
</p>

</div>

Re: 'Read more...' expandable/collapsible text

OwenGeo — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:32:26 GMT

Hi Ross -- Thanks for your question about using custom HTML. I don't think we'd whitelist those tags since unfortunately there are some security concerns with them. Additionally, they aren't supported in IE/Edge, so that would not be an ideal user experience for your readers.

We have heard the request to have a small collapsible region in a story map from a few other people, so we can look at possibly providing something like that in the Builder in the future.

Re: 'Read more...' expandable/collapsible text

RossMcDonald1 — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 07:47:10 GMT

Hi Owen,

Thank you for your feedback.

Adding that functionality would certainly be useful. I hope that you do

decide to add it.

Regards,

Ross