Is 'destroy' supposed to re-expand compacted elements? about jquery-expander

[kswedberg]

Hi there,
Thanks for the report. There is still, obviously, a lot of work that needs to be done with .expander('destroy'). Part of the problem lies in how I'm slicing and dicing the elements: I'm using regular expressions. Unfortunately, that means things get messed up sometimes, like when there are unordered lists involved (because I wrap everything in a <div>, which is invalid as a parent of <li> elements).

Anyway, I hacked an ugly fix to your particular problem. I put in on jsbin instead of jsfiddle because I needed better access to the console. Here it is: http://jsbin.com/eyohez/2 (you can see the code, too, by going to http://jsbin.com/eyohez/2/edit).

[otravers]

Thanks, I figured there would be a manual way to undo the expanding. If I want to really use this for my purposes though, I'll have to find how to replace somewhat complex Jquery selectors with a javascript loop, as my outline function takes 10 seconds to complete on my average laptop with Chrome! We have very long articles (10,000+ words - they're reports really) that we display on a single page. This translates into thousands of DOM elements so I have to be conservative in how I traverse the page. For now I'll stick with altogether hiding the nonessential parts.

Anyway I'm just rambling outside of the scope of my initial report, thanks for clarifying what I can and cannot do with your plugin and offering a hack.

[kswedberg]

I see! Yes, in your case you're probably much better off with a custom, streamlined solution. I'm going to close this issue for now, but if there is anything I can do to help, let me know.