Corvid Tutorial: Creating a Show-More Link

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Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could help me with this?

I have followed the tutorial to set up a collapsable section of text with the read more read less functionality. The text is now not showing on my published site at all. I can’t see any issues and wondered if anyone could have a quick look over it for me? The code I used from the Corvid tutorial is below and my site is https://www.businessnetwork.healthygirlhq.com

Thanks so much in advance to anyone that can help

Racheal

$w.onReady(function () {
let fullText; // variable to hold the full text
let shortText; // variable to hold the short version of the text
// how many characters to include in the shortened version
const shortTextLength = 40;
// read the full text and store it in the fullText variable
fullText = $w(“#text5”).text;
// grab the number of characters defined in shortTextLength and store them in the shortText variable
shortText = fullText.substr(0, shortTextLength) + “…”;
// set the contents of the text element to be the short text
$w(“#text5”).text = shortText;
});
export function button5_click(event) {
// check the contents of the text element
if ($w(“#text5”).text === shortText) {
// if currently displaying short text, display the full text
$w(“#text5”).text = fullText;
$w(“#button5”).label = “Show less”;
} else {
// if currently displaying full text, display the short text
$w(“#text5”).text = shortText;
$w(“#button5”).label = “Show more”;
}
}

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Code for the “Show More/Show Less” Toggle Button

let fullText; // variable to hold the full text
let shortText; // variable to hold the short version of the text 

$w.onReady(function () {
// how many characters to include in the shortened version
const shortTextLength = 40;
// read the full text and store it in the fullText variable
fullText = $w("#myTextElement").text;
// grab the number of characters defined in shortTextLength and store them in the shortText variable
shortText = fullText.substr(0, shortTextLength) + "...";
// set the contents of the text element to be the short text
$w("#myTextElement").text = shortText;
});

export function mybutton_click(event, $w) { //make sure that you've added the onClick event in properties
// check the contents of the text element 
if ($w("#myTextElement").text === shortText) {
// if currently displaying short text, display the full text
$w("#myTextElement").text = fullText;
$w("#myButton").label = "Show less"; 
} else {
// if currently displaying full text, display the short text
$w("#myTextElement").text = shortText;
$w("#myButton").label = "Show more";
}
}
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Code for the “Show More” Button

let fullText; // variable to hold the full text
let shortText; // variable to hold the short version of the text

$w.onReady(function () {
// how many characters to include in the shortened version
const shortTextLength = 40;
// read the full text and store it in the fullText variable
fullText = $w("#myTextElement").text;
// grab the number of characters defined in shortTextLength and store them in the shortText variable
shortText = fullText.substr(0, shortTextLength) + "...";
// set the contents of the text element to be the short text
$w("#myTextElement").text = shortText;
});

export function mybutton_click(event, $w) { //make sure that you've added the onClick event in properties
// display the full text
$w("#myTextElement").text = fullText;
// collapse the button
$w("#myButton").collapse();
}