Dynamically slide down comments

Ben Golub from RSSmeme has a How-To on modifying Disqus to dynamically slide down comments.

We don’t have official support for this yet, but it looks to work beautifully. I love seeing stuff like this.

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Daniel on March 6th 2008 in disqus

  • Interesting post. I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.
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  • let me propose a nice expansion instead of having individual columns of information make a box for each topic set the width to spread out under all the topics and start them hidden to get the height like Andrei said then when a topic is clicked close any opened boxes and slide this box down. I’m new to Jquery but it seams like it wouldn’t be to hard to do

    If it’s already done somewhere drop a note and so I can find it please
  • For the simple examples above, you’re absolutely right. Most of the time, though, I do something depending on the state of the panel (e.g. display a collapsed/expanded icon). So somewhere there will have to be a check. I guess slideToggle() could be used and the state checked in the callback - depending on when I needed to know the state (before or after it started sliding). Thanks for the advice.
  • I think the beauty of disqus is that you guys don't have to officially support "extensions" like this. For example, making the javascript validate was easy to do on my own. Great system!
  • Thanks for mentioning this. I hope other sites can benefit from my experiments.
  • and thanks for doing this!
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