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 Print 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 …

[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 admins 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, …

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:

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