jQuery Text Toggle, But Wildcard?

JavaScript
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Here is the text toggle I have right now:

abutton.text(text == "Read More" ? "Read Less" : "Read More");

That works fine, but some of the buttons that will fall under this function will say “Learn More” instead of “Read More”, so I was trying to figure out a way to have the jquery only change the word instead of updating the phrase.

So, if “More” is there, change that to “Less”, and back and forth.

One-line way to do this?

Cheers!
Ryan

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Right now my multiline solution is:

if (text.toLowerCase().indexOf("more") >= 0) {
                    abutton.text(text.replace("More","Less"));
                } else{
                     abutton.text(text.replace("Less","More"));
                }

If something smoother let me know.

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Normally you wouldn’t parse and replace text like this in your JS – that will get messy pretty quickly, especially if you add multi language support at some point. You might handle this with a class though:

.toggle-content .read-less {
  display: none;
}

.toggle-content.active .read-more {
  display: none;
}

.toggle-content.active .read-less {
  display: unset;
}

<a href="#" class="toggle-content">
  <span class="read-more">Read more</span>
  <span class="read-less">Read less</span>
</a>

$('.toggle-content').click(function (event) {
  event.preventDefault()
  $(this).toggleClass('active')
})

This way, all content can be edited in the HTML without requiring any adjustments to the JS.

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That is so much better. Thanks!

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Ahh,

Actually, I forgot why I was using Javascript. This is a great solution, if the button could be edited (the code), but I am writing a script that converts the WPBakery template buttons for Wordpress. So you can only add one amount of “text” into the button with WPBakery. Now, you could do a text block instead and copy/paste the typical button code and then edit it manually. But plugin and theme updates might present somewhat of an issue.

6

Actually!

WPBakery does allow for html to be used in the “text” field, so this should work.

Boom!

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