▶ Table of contents: I created a bookmarklet to generate a foldable table of contents (ToC) like the one shown above. I hope it helps avid community members who write long texts! Summary I sometimes write long topics/posts and needed a ToC for easier reading. I found some existing work, such as Di…

Ohh nice - could that be extended to create a TOC for the entire post with all replies?

Posts generally load about 20 at a time, I guess it would be difficult to create a TOC of all posts at once

Very cool! Thanks for sharing @ShunS ! I love how you framed the problem you’re solving with this tool, and how it is designed to meet the needs of important users on sites who themselves may not have permissions to change things on the site itself as things exist today.

Thank you for the replies :slight_smile: As @Lhc_fl says, the DOM appreach (HTML/JavaScript) is limited in the number of items we can manage. Discourse API might help for such actions. Another problem with creating TOC for replies is that it’s not easy to define what would be the heading title fo…

@ShunS this is very cool, thank you for sharing. also, welcome to Meta :wave: :slight_smile:

This fabulous and exactly what I was looking for. I seems to solve this issue [image] Automatic TOC inline/top of post Feature here is an alternative solution that’s very cool and outside the box Why not submit this to Discourse to include it as an officia…

I have one suggestion, is it possible to add a bullet at the beginning TOC line? In my case each heading is a long line, so the bullet helps differentiate one entry from the next

Hi @RBoy , thank you for the feedback and the suggestion! An editor plugin would be great, but it’d be a lot of effort to read the source code of discourse to understand the logic of handling emojis and defining the heading/anchor text and create a repository of the plugin. A (seemingly) simple plu…

[image] RBoy: an official plug-in or feature We already have a ToC plugin and it doesn’t need to maintain the ToC in the post body. I’d definitely recommend that one if installed as it can’t go out of sync. This tool looks great for when DiscoToC is not available though. Nice work! :+1:

I created a bookmarklet to create the table of content for forum posts

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Lhc_fl (Linca) July 10, 2023, 12:45am 11

This can be done using a theme component. You can take a look at the decorateCookedElement method of the api, it should be useful.

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Automatic Table of Contents generation Feature	13	6511	March 9, 2020
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Disco TOC for replies Feature completed , disco-toc	20	1584	August 9, 2024
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I created a bookmarklet to create the table of content for forum posts

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