Hello Linda,
he didn’t added a class or id to style the expand-link, you only can style the expanded text with the class above. ( .te_div )

If you want to style the expand-link, you have to add a class or an id in the php-file.

Navigate to your plugin-overview in the dashboard go to text-expander plugin and click edit.
Make sure you edit the file text-expander/text-expander.php.
Scroll down to this text:
        $new_string = ‘‘;
        $new_string .= $sdesc . ‘‘ . “n”;
        $new_string .= ”;
        $new_string .= ‘expander_hide(‘#te’ . $rnum . ”);’;

And Change it to:
        $new_string = ‘‘;
        $new_string .= $sdesc . ‘‘ . “n”;
        $new_string .= ”;
        $new_string .= ‘expander_hide(‘#te’ . $rnum . ”);’;

So now you can style your expand link in css with the class .te_header

greetings from germany

I ran into that same thing (the first-item extra space) – it turns out that the plugin is wrapping the first item in tags, which then treats that first item as part of the preceding paragraph.

I actually found numerous posts out there talking about “the first item bug”…

My kludge of a workaround:  I wrapped the preceeding paragraph in a div inline styled with the same background, position:relative, z-index:9999 and then applied a negative bottom margin – in my case 80px. 

THEN, I duplicated the first expand item on the list, so it’s both #1 and #2 .

Worked fine.   Basically, I just floated that preceding paragraph to the top of the Z stack, made sure it had a background, and then sucked the first expand item out of place underneath it.

As I said… ugly, but works.  Maybe that will help!

That sounds like a good idea, Eric.
I put that on the todo-list.

Why would you want to use both?

I could add an option to Text Expander which makes it possible to create text-sections without the slide-transition.

Hello Will,

I think this is not possible currently (unless you remove the margin-bottom: 20 in the css-selector for the -element which I don’t recommend though).

I will look into this next week and see what I can do.

I love this plug in but have the same issue.  I looked at the shalanah site and it looks like the problem is solved there.  How was this done??  Thanks!

I’ll look into it soon.

I’ll look into this soon. Thanks for pointing it out.

Yea, I see now that is working if u don’t write space after the first [ and before “EXPAND”, like u writed down in above article. Tested on fresh 3.2.1. Wp install and fresh text expander plugin.

Hi there hedgehog, I also love this plugin. Works perfectly with my IE8 and WP 3.2.1 however still not working with IE 7. Do you have any idea yet when you will have time to look into it?

Hi Doug,

That is really not very helpful for you.
I’ll look into the problem and get back to you as soon as fixed this problem.

Give me some time though as I’ve got a lot more stuff to do right now.

I ended up having to use columns to control the margins. Works great.

This should be possible using CSS3 attribute-selectors which are compatible with nearly all browsers (besides IE6).

a[id~="te"] should work.

You’d have to insert the collapse link after .entry which stands for class=entry.
If there are more users requesting such a feature I’ll include it but to me it sounds pretty specific.

Do you still experience this issue in 3.1 ?

Which theme are you using? I’m trying to reproduce this problem.

Yeah, I will definitely as soon as I find the time for it.

On which browser does it hang?
I couldn’t reproduce this behaviour.

Das Problem ist mit Version 0.3 behoben.

Thanks for the cue. After releasing v 0.2 soon, I’ll check what’s going wrong.

1. Which theme are you using?
2. Have you deleted the space-character between [ and Expand? It has to start with [Expand

Sorry disregard that! Thanks for such a kickass plugin. Fits my needs exactly!

Does anyone monitor this and add comments on how to use this correctly?

I’ve put my efforts trying to get this one to work properly on hold for my site. Instead, I’m trying the jquery collapse-o-matic plugin instead for now.

Thanks for pointing that out.
I’ll investigate this matter soon.

I’ll add an options-page soon where you can configure it.

They all appear with the same spacing in my Chrome 7.

I’ll check that problem as soon as I find the time to.

ups, the relevant part does not appear in the above comment. here are the changes I made:
function expand(param) {
jQuery(function ($) {
$(“div”+param).slideToggle(“slow”, function() {
if( $(“div”+param).is(“:visible”) ) {
$(“a”+param).removeClass(“open”).addClass(“closed”);
}
else {
$(“a”+param).removeClass(“closed”).addClass(“open”);
}
});
});
}
function expander_hide(param) {
jQuery(function ($) {
$(“div”+param).hide();
$(“a”+param).removeClass(“closed”).addClass(“open”);
$(“a”+param).show();
});
}

I would really like to modify the ARROW icon, but can not understand your solution. Where to paste the above code and the one you added? Where do I control the icon that will be displayed to Expand or Collapse? Thanks, and Thanks for the great PLUGIN !!

Same problem for me (pleaaase, put an example on the plugin page on WordPress.orp and in the readme.txt !)

I’ll make it configurable soon.

Schalte doch mal JavaScript aus, dann siehst du es.
Die Textblöcke werden lediglich ausgeblendet von meinem Plugin.
Das heißt, dass Sie standardmäßig immer sichtbar sind, auch für Suchmaschinen.