Is there a way of seeing a simple version of a topic? Use case is that I simply want to highlight all text in a topic to copy and paste into a document and want to avoid metadata such as poster name, dates, button text etc. Some forums have a ‘printable view’ or something similar.

I am not sure if one of those options is what you are looking for. Both still show not only the text but also, for example, the post author. You can Printing a topic as a PDF by adding /print to the URL. For example, https://meta.discourse.org/t/expand-composer-button-on-mobile/296469 is printed like this: https://meta.discourse.org/t/expand-composer-button-on-mobile/296469/print Discourse also offers a raw view. Therefore, you can replace the /t/topic-title/ in the URL with /raw/. If there is a post number at the end of the URL, you see the raw of that post; otherwise, you see the one for the whole topic. However, the author and the post date also appear in the raw view. The topic looks like this in raw view: https://meta.discourse.org/raw/296469/

[image] Moin: you see the one for the whole topic IIRC, isn’t that limited to the first 100 or so posts in that view? (Could be wrong, been a minute since I tried it on a bigger topic)

You can add ?page=2 to get the next 100 posts and so on.

[image] Moin: adding /print to the URL. For example Just to note, this is another case where in-tab navigation doesn’t do the thing requested - need to open in a new tab or new window.

out of the box css solution [image] Page Publishing Site Management An alternative to Page Publishing - another method is to use CSS to remove the unwanted elements on a regular Topic Post, while preserving all of the functionality (i.e. Javascripts in installed Theme Components, and CSS styling, etc.) Tags in the composer can be used to selectively apply formatting to a specific Topic Post. For example, on my site I achieve this by pasting the following CSS into my theme’s CSS in the Common tab: /********************** REMOVE THINGS FROM LAYOUT USING TAGS **…

Thanks. Raw was exactly what I needed. Now if you could please implement this feature in an old vBulletin 3.8 board… :stuck_out_tongue:

View simple version of a topic

Product Support

Lilly (Lillian ) February 26, 2024, 12:42pm 6

out of the box css solution

Topic		Replies	Views
How to print or export very long topics Product Support	7	3789	April 4, 2022
Is there a way to print a single post in a topic? Product Support	16	1056	March 29, 2026
Export topic as markdown Feature completed	19	3991	January 18, 2022
Printer Friendly CSS UX	30	7054	November 19, 2022
Export document with all content from one topic? Product Support	6	1220	February 27, 2023

View simple version of a topic

Related topics