> Have another programming quandary that I'm hoping I can get the list's help
> on...I'm not even sure what the technique is called so I'm not coming up
> with much so far by Googling for tutorials.
>
> Basically, we need some way to code a "Show More" function that would allow
> us to take a long piece of text, shorten it to X maximum lines, then have a
> "Read more" link that when clicked would display the rest of the text on
> the page below the first half.

There is no obvious CSS-only solution (cssplay.co.uk has one though)
but in terms of browser compatibility and usabilty (keyword enabling
for starters), this should be done with a mix of CSS and JS. I will
create a demo in a moment. The snag you will run into though is that
there is no such thing as "after x lines", as with different font
sizes, there'll be more or less lines.

-- 
Chris Heilmann
Book: http://www.beginningjavascript.com
Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com
Writing: http://icant.co.uk/
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