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Ok so, I've come to learn to abuse the [ collapse ] tag/coding/whatever you want to call it. However, my one annoyance with it is the "new line" it seems to create after whatever you put it after. For example.

This is some text -

As you can see, it instantly makes a new line for the collapsed bits, and it drives me absolutely insane. Sometimes I don't care, but a lot of the time I do not want the collapsed text to be on a new line. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? I'd really really really like to know and if anyone knows, please tell me. And this also goes for multiple collapse tags in a row

Such as

ALSO, how to make the collapse text editted like..bold, italic, underline? Not asking for the text INSIDE the collapse, but the actual text you click on. So

Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

Please please PLEASE no advanced sort of CSS or other coding anything that requires a premium/upgraded account to have. I don't have that so, while said coding may come in handy in the future, right now it's completely useless to me so helping in that way would be counter productive and a complete defeat of purpose lol

Unfortunately the only way to achieve this is by using CSS. There's nothing you can do with BBCode that will alter the way collapse tags function and look because this is CSS specific:

This is what this code ends up doing to the collapse tags in your post:

So, even if I could use css, it'd mess up the collapse code anyway? Cause all the hidden text isn't even hidden in that thing you showed me

No, that was me uncollapsing the tags to show the collapsed tag is not on the line below but on the same line with the collapse text. Unless that's not what you meant?

If you were to try and put a collapse tag directly behind text instead of putting it on a new line, it would mess up the text anyway. Collapse tags are basically boxes that open, they need specific constraints to function. They're contained within their own div classes to work so you can't move them to look like you want without screwing things up quite a bit. (And that's with CSS, there are no BBCodes to affect this.)

Sanne, you just broke my dreams of organized collapse box success....why you do that?

That aside, thank you for answering! Kind of frustrating that it can't be made to -not- go on another line in regular bbcode but, whatever. I can still work with it/use it!

Unfortunately the only changes you can make to the collapse dotted underline words is its position on the page. You can center it, move it to the right, or keep it defaulted to the left.
You would have to also change the text inside the collapsed brackets if you don't want them to also be centered or moved to a different side of the page.

For example:

I don't think you can change anything else about it

As others have said, the collapse tag is not designed to accommodate design changes.