If you use a version of Dokuwiki older than Angua, please use this older version of the plugin.

If you ever wonder “should I add this detail since it may be very interesting to some readers, or shouldn't I since it would complicate a first reading?”, then you may be interested in this plugin. Indeed, you'll just have to write

<hidden click here if you want to know more>Since you want to know more, here is an explanation with more details […]</hidden>

and the complicated explanation won't clutter up the page, but will still be readable.

Here is a quick example:

To avoid annoying readers we could have:

But an interested reader may click and get:

The simplest way is:

<hidden>Hidden text</hidden>

This will display the default text “Click to display ⇲” when the text is hidden, and “Click to hide ⇱” when it's visible.

Some options may be added inside the opening <hidden> tag:

Please note that Dokuwiki formatting syntax may be used with options like “onHidden”.

It's possible to add a button that will hide/display every hidden blocks at once using:

<hiddenSwitch>

or

<hiddenSwitch Here comes my custom text>

Therefore, to see it in action, you could create such a page: <file> <hidden>My first hidden block</hidden> <hidden>My second hidden block</hidden>

<hiddenSwitch>

Note: this feature used to be provided by a separate plugin. However, since “hidden v2015-08-12”, they have been merged

You may download this archive and unpack it in the /lib/plugins directory of your wiki.

You may also use the plugin manager, using this URL: https://github.com/gturri/hidden/zipball/master

• If the reader disabled JavaScript, this plugin won't work. More precisely, the full text will be displayed at once. Anyway, it shouldn't be a problem since quite everyone enables JavaScript.
• If you just installed this plugin and if it doesn't seem to work, try to empty the cache of your browser and the cache of dokuwiki.
• To use an image in the header, you should use <hidden click here {{image.gif?nolinking}}> (see images for more details).
• You should avoid to use header inside a hidden section, because there is currently a bug with this case
• If, after refreshing the cache, the hidden plugin still doesn't work and shows three lines containing the 'click here' text, change the template and revert back to what it was. In my case this solved it.
• The default texts (“Click to display” and “Click to hide”) can be changed through Dokuwiki admin page, even though the default values for those settings might look weird.

Please use the bugtracker to report bugs, rather than using this page.

Some advantages:

• It's possible to have an actual conversation without overburdening this page
• It's easier to retrieve information on closed bugs

Since this plugin relies on javascript, if any other plugin (or a non-default template) break the javascript, then this “hidden plugin” will give the feeling it doesn't work.

Consequently, before submitting a bug, please try to

• Deactivate all your other plugins
• Switch to the default template
• Empty the cache of Dokuwiki and the cache of your browser
• Check if it still doesn't work.
  • If it's the case, please report it on the bugtracker
  • Otherwise it means that an other plugin (or template) is broken or incompatible. You could reactivate them one by one to find the actual guilty one.

• Update plugin.info.txt (2023-11-07 14:00)
• Merge pull request #64 from nightflyza/master (2023-11-07 13:59)
• Ukrainian localization added (2023-11-07 13:11)
• Update version (2023-05-04 12:02)
• Rm useless and deprecated "require" (2023-05-04 11:59)