[Textbook-l] Re: disappearing/reappearing column-side notes

Sat Aug 9 01:49:29 UTC 2003

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 06:26:42PM -0700, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> Karl Wick saith:
> > Here is a technical question: in the same way that the
> > table of contents feature can be opened and collapsed with
> > a click  apparently wihout reloading the whole page (which
> > IMHO is a very cool feature !), could we have collapseable
> > notes for the edge of a document ? 
> 
> We can easily use the same (or almost the same) code for hiding/showing
> sidenotes as we already do for hiding/showing the table of contents.
> I made a sample at
> 
>   http://www.wikipedia.org/upload/a/a2/Sidenote.html
> 
> with JavaScript code based on the wikibits.js ToC code. The changes
> are to allow the ToC/note functions to operate on any ID, not tocinside,
> and for the default to be hidden notes.

Hold on a second. Such a default makes sidenotes completely unavailable for
text browsers, not ? Please make sure your code also works with Javascript turned off.