# Collapsible text
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/collapsible-text/6243
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [April 1, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/collapsible-text/6243 "2020-04-01T14:24:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@yinon\_raviv](https://community.glideapps.com/u/yinon_raviv)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/collapsible-text/6243/1 "2020-04-01T14:24:39Z")
Gliders,
What are your thoughts on collapsible text? Can we do it somehow in glide?
Cheers
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/collapsible-text/6243/2 "2020-04-05T17:56:23Z")
Basic Text and Text components allow for collapsing text with a ‘More’ button to expand. I don’t think you can collapse it once it’s expanded.
The alternative is to use unsupported HTML in a Rich Text component.
> [@Intro & TIP: How to Create a Markdown Accordian to Show/Hide Stuff](https://community.glideapps.com/t/intro-tip-how-to-create-a-markdown-accordian-to-show-hide-stuff/2250):
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> My first post here on the new community Hi… I’m Justin I love Glide. i just crossed 80 apps in my dashboard…all experiments and [cool stuff for one of my communities to use](https://landsurveyorsunited.com/apps) Eventually I will go pro with the best parts of apps the community is using the most… I [also encourage other community creators](https://creators.ning.com/members/JFarrow) to use Glide My tip for you today is how to create a cell inside a Details Layout which holds a SHOW/HIDE accordian style dropdown using Markdown and a Rich Text module. Like so: [markdown-accor…
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### Author:  [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/collapsible-text/6243/3 "2020-04-05T18:50:35Z")
@yinon_raviv the text box collapses when you leave the page so in that was it has a kind of collapse functionality
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### Author:  [@yinon\_raviv](https://community.glideapps.com/u/yinon_raviv)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/collapsible-text/6243/4 "2020-04-05T18:54:28Z")
this only works for long text and trim to 4. I was looking for something to create lik Q&A