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Full-Stack Vue.js 2 and Laravel 5

You're reading from   Full-Stack Vue.js 2 and Laravel 5 Bring the frontend and backend together with Vue, Vuex, and Laravel

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788299589
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anthony Gore Anthony Gore
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Hello Vue – An Introduction to Vue.js FREE CHAPTER 2. Prototyping Vuebnb, Your First Vue.js Project 3. Setting Up a Laravel Development Environment 4. Building a Web Service with Laravel 5. Integrating Laravel and Vue.js with Webpack 6. Composing Widgets with Vue.js Components 7. Building a Multi-Page App with Vue Router 8. Managing Your Application State with Vuex 9. Adding a User Login and API Authentication with Passport 10. Deploying a Full-Stack App to the Cloud Index

Show more feature


We've run into a problem now that the lists section is after the About section. The About section has an arbitrary length, and in some of the mock listings that we'll add you'll see that this section is quite long.

We don't want it to dominate the page and force the user to do a lot of unwelcome scrolling to see the lists section, so we need a way to hide some of the text if it's too long, yet allow the user to view the full text if they choose.

Let's add a show more UI feature that will crop the About text after a certain length and give the user a button to reveal the hidden text:

Figure 2.8. Show more feature

We'll start by adding a contracted class to the p tag that contains the about text interpolation. The CSS rule for this class will restrict its height to 250 pixels and hide any text overflowing the element.

index.html:

<div class="about">
  <h3>About this listing</h3>
  <p class="contracted">{{ about }}</p>
</div>

style.css:

.about p...
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