my_table_$post[postid] ?????

[Gomjaba]

Using THIS Post from Jake Bunce, I am trying to use this code to put into the postbit_legacy on vb 3.5.2

The code stated :

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
	<tr>
		<td class="tcat">
			<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('my_table')"><img id="collapseimg_my_table" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat$vbcollapse[collapseimg_my_table].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
			TABLE TITLE
		</td>
	</tr>
</thead>
<tbody id="collapseobj_my_table" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_my_table]">
	<tr>
		<td class="alt1">
			STUFF THAT IS HIDDEN WHEN THE TABLE IS COLLAPSED
		</td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Since it is a postbit we supposed to use my_table_$post[postid] I tried to swap my_table with my_table_$post[postid] but I cannot even save the template since it gives me a lot of errors .. Could someone please help me there ?

So what happens basicially in postbit when clicking the image to collapse, it collapses the first postbit only and not the actuall table I am trying to collapse ..

[Jake Bunce]

See the second post from that thread. Use this code which follows the template code from the last code block in the second post. I have added in the $post[postid] variable so this code will work in the postbit template as is:

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
	<tr>
		<td class="[color=green]tcat[/color]">
			[color=blue]<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('[color=red]my_table_$post[postid][/color]')"><img id="collapseimg_[color=red]my_table_$post[postid][/color]" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_[color=green]tcat[/color][color=brown]{[/color]$[color=brown]GLOBALS['[/color]vbcollapse[color=brown]'][/color][[color=brown]'[/color]collapseimg_[color=red]my_table_[color=brown]' .[/color] $post[postid][/color]][color=brown]}[/color].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>[/color]
			TABLE TITLE
		</td>
	</tr>
</thead>
<tbody [color=purple]id="collapseobj_[color=red]my_table_$post[postid][/color]" style="[color=brown]{[/color]$[color=brown]GLOBALS['[/color]vbcollapse[color=brown]'][/color][[color=brown]'[/color]collapseobj_[color=red]my_table_[color=brown]' .[/color] $post[postid][/color]][color=brown]}[/color]"[/color]>
	<tr>
		<td class="alt1">
			STUFF THAT IS HIDDEN WHEN THE TABLE IS COLLAPSED
		</td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

[Gomjaba]

THANKS Works like a charm. I did see your 2nd post, but I did not understand, either because of PHP knowledge or simply language wise

One question though , how can I have it either collapsed or expanded on default ?

[Jake Bunce]

They are expanded by default because the user does not have a cookie entry for the new table. The only way I know to make them collapsed by default requires giving up the ability of the table to remember its state across multiple page loads.

Replace this code:

<tbody [color=purple]id="collapseobj_[color=red]my_table_$post[postid][/color]" style="[color=brown]{[/color]$[color=brown]GLOBALS['[/color]vbcollapse[color=brown]'][/color][[color=brown]'[/color]collapseobj_[color=red]my_table_[color=brown]' .[/color] $post[postid][/color]][color=brown]}[/color]"[/color]>

...with this code:

<tbody [color=purple]id="collapseobj_[color=red]my_table_$post[postid][/color]" style="display: none;"[/color]>

Now it will always be collapsed by default. It will reset to collapsed when the page is refreshed even if the user expanded it previously.

[Gomjaba]

THANK you very much