Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Reading/Create a button to expand all collapsible elements on a page

Create a button to expand all collapsible elements on a page

  • Problem: Some pages have many collapsible elements, for example Bulgaria women's national football team results, and it can be very tedious clicking "show" for each of those elements.
  • Proposed solution: Add a button to "Tools" that will expand all the collapsible elements with one click.
  • Who would benefit: Anyone who wants to see a page fully expanded; also editors who need to compare a preview of their edits to a page with the original page with all collapsed elements shown.
  • More comments:
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  • Proposer: —Bruce1eetalk 10:12, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

@MusikAnimal (WMF): I'm referring to the desktop, not the mobile. The "Tools" I'm referring to is the Tools menu at the top right in Vector 2022 (or the Tools menu in the left-hand side in Vector 2010). It doesn't matter where this button would go, the Tools menu was just a suggestion. —Bruce1eetalk 21:38, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, got it! I thought you meant the collapsible "sections" as seen on the mobile site. You're referring to collapsible elements. I have reworded and retitled your porposal accordingly. Hope this is okay! MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 21:57, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@MusikAnimal (WMF): Thanks, that's better; "collapsible elements" is correct. —Bruce1eetalk 22:04, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I vaguely remember that there was a userscript for this somewhere, but I can't find it right now.. It definitely wouldn't be hard to make one, as there is a hook that is triggered for all collapsible elements, which you can use to modify the behavior (this is how autocollapse works). —TheDJ (talkcontribs) 14:13, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Bruce1ee: I wish the Vector 2022 skin for the desktop site would have an option to move the global search box under everything else in the top header row (the site logo, the tools icons, et al.). I regularly look at Wikipedia with Firefox zoomed at 170% with the browser sidebar permanently expanded to display browser tabs vertically, and this causes the Wikipedia search box to collapse into a little magnifier icon I have to constantly click to expand again. I wish this need to click to expand a global search box at any page zoom setting would go away, at least optionally, if a user could go into settings (which unfortunately requires logging in), and ticking a box to permanently keep the search box in its own row in the site header, with nothing else in that row. — Derrgill (talk) 02:08, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    @Derrgill: I think you may have misinterpreted this proposal. It refers to expanding all collapsible elements within an article. —Bruce1eetalk 07:02, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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