Displaying further text in repeater

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I am a committee member for an amateur orchestra and I am building our new website.

There is content for our website (a list of past soloists) that I believe would be best managed using a data collection. One of the fields for each record is a piece of descriptive text (a biography). This is too long to have it all displayed on the page by default - it would take up too much room. There are a few ways I’ve thought up of solving this but I’m not sure what is technically possible in Wix:

  1. Is it possible to have a hover box in a repeater? With summary information from a record on the front and then it flips over when clicked/hovered to reveal the longer text?

  2. If the records are displayed using a repeater, could a button be used to link to a Lightbox containing the longer text that pops up when clicked? If the repeater is linked to a data collection, how would I make sure each button links to the correct Lightbox info?

  3. In a repeater, is it possible to display say two lines of text by default then have a ‘see more’ option?

Please note I have no coding knowledge and have so far used only the graphic interface in Wix! Many thanks.

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Hey Joanna,

  1. By hover box, do you mean something like the second strip on this website ?

  2. You could do this by passing data to the lightbox depending on which item is clicked , but the easier way might be to create a dynamic page .

  3. It is possible, but keep in mind if your text has any formatting or links, it will get more complicated than what this tutorial provides:
    https://support.wix.com/en/article/corvid-tutorial-creating-a-show-more-link

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Thank you for taking the time to respond, David. I have settled on a dynamic page as a suitable way of achieveing the effect I’m after. As I’ve not used Wix before, half the battle is knowing what functionality is available!

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@joanna Great! For the expanding text, you’ll want to use the HTML property of the text if it has formatting.