Talking aobut this: something I would like this to show without the user having to click it. Is it possible?

The only way I know of would be through JavaScript, you could probably run an event that looks for a details tag and adds the attribute ‘open’ to it. Something like this: $('details').attr('open','') Figuring out the right event to fire that on, is a different question.

Is JS still the “easiest” solution at this point?

Is there a way to expand collapsed text by default?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) November 13, 2018, 11:11pm 2

Not that I am aware of, no.

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Is there a way to expand collapsed text by default?

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