#46: Collapse and expand sections with javascript

Contents

1. Motivation
2. Proposal
3. Implementation
4. Progress log

Proposed by

elvix

Proposal type

User interface

State

completed

Motivation

Sometimes forms can get cluttered by information that is purely optional and used very rarely, in special cases.

Having the possibility of collapsing the section with the not-so-commonly-used data makes it possible to keep the user interface cleaner and neater.

Proposal

Add a javascript to enable consistent collapsing / expanding of sections clientside.

Implementation

Add a small, non-intrusive script that lives in plone_javascripts.js

The javascript will search for fieldsets with a class of "collapsible" and apply the collpase-behavior to them after loading.

The behavior adds an icon [+][-] inside the legend of the fieldset. The user can click the icon to collapse or expand the section visually.

Progress log

skins/plone_ecmascript/collapsiblesections.js has made it into Plone 2.1 and is used to collapse the workflow history on item views.