Template talk:Collapse bottom

Alternative message
Please change The above.... to  so that the message can be specified, just like Collapse top, especially when it is not a "discussion" that has been collapsed.

Also, or alternatively seeing as Collapse top does not allow the corresponding text to be changed, change the (default) text to "The above content has been placed in a collapse box for improved usability.", which is identical to the text from Collapse top except for "above". Mark Hurd (talk) 09:58, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅, went with your alternative proposal. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:09, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Fix stray characters
There is a "|}" at the top of the article. Do they serve a purpose? – S. Rich (talk) 00:37, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Given your 61,000 edits I hope you're joking, but they are the actual purpose of this template: closing off the collapsible table started by collapse top. Mark Hurd (talk) 13:35, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Broken template
please revert, it breaks the template. See above. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 02:51, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ N.J.A.  &#124; talk  02:53, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Given that this has come up before, I've created Template:Editnotices/Page/Template:Collapse bottom, just to be on the safe side. --DannyS712 (talk) 03:00, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * It looks like has made an identical mistake, despite your editnotice. * Pppery * it has begun...  03:00, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry about that. I used the template at the bottom of a discussion and it was adding "|}" at the bottom. Doesn't seem to be occurring now, though. Here's a diff from when it occurred minutes ago...scroll to bottom. North America1000 03:08, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, the "|}" is back (diff). Will all discussions that use the template now have to this in place at the bottom? I hope not. North America1000 03:12, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Was this because you were using collapse bottom instead of archive bottom? — &thinsp; J 947  [cont] 03:17, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , because you used archive top and collapse bottom and those two templates are not meant to be combined. I fixed it so it uses archive bottom and the extra character goes away. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 03:18, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Also, pings only work if you add a timestamp in the same edit as you add the ping, so wouldn't have received a notification from that message. — &thinsp; J 947 [cont] 03:19, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * (ec) Got it — — I figured it out after revisiting the page, but  beat me to fixing it. Sorry for the hassle. North America1000 03:21, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I've now added a testcase page for this template as well. As a general note for anyone editing templates: if you see high-use on the template documentation page, it is a widely-used template and you should test your changes in the sandbox first. If you see used in system on the template documentation page, the template is used in an interface message and you should test your changes in the sandbox first. If the template is fully protected as a widely-used template used in an interface message, you should test your changes in the sandbox first. And if there's an editnotice telling you, you should really test your changes in the sandbox first. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 03:28, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Edit request to complete TfD nomination
Template:Collapse bottom has been listed at Templates for discussion (nomination), but was protected so could not be tagged. Please add:

to the top of the page to complete the nomination. Thank you. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 03:10, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Done. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:55, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 14 May 2021
This page gets listed in Special:LintErrors/stripped-tag because of having  without the balancing   tags. Functionally this is correct since this template is paired with Collapse top which has the opening tags. So a div and table tag wrapped in noincude needs to be added to remove the page off Linter report.

So in the first line, replace  with

You can see in Template:Collapse bottom/sandbox that this works. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 06:05, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * ❌ this isn't actually causing any problems, no need to change it. — xaosflux  Talk 10:59, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * then can you make the two tags as includeonly?   I have updated the sandbox with this. You can check testcases that it works. It won't change the template function and removes page from Linter list. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 11:14, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ — xaosflux  Talk 12:43, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

An edit request that was emailed to me
Hi everyone! I was emailed a request to edit this article and replace line 1 from:




 * to:



Is this change necessary? I'm posting this message on behalf of the user that emailed this to me. :-) Thanks for looking -  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   03:08, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Oshwah, no, it would be wrong. The /div is within includeonly tags so it doesn't show on the template page. Adding an opening div tag would break or invalidate the template page. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 17:16, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Alexis Jazz - Good call; thanks for responding and for letting me know. :-) What about the following code below instead? It basically swaps the position of the  and   tags. I'm still trying to figure out why the extra   tag is necessary and being requested in the first place (as well as the   tag, if it's even an extra one at all)... I'm also trying to find the original email that was sent to me about this as well...




 * to:


 * Thoughts?  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   04:25, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Oshwah, that would break the template. The lone  here complements the opening div tag in collapse top. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 13:25, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Alexis Jazz - Ah, thank you. I probably would've missed that... Okay, then I'm not making any changes. Case closed!  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   14:33, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Alexis Jazz - Ah, thank you. I probably would've missed that... Okay, then I'm not making any changes. Case closed!  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   14:33, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 16 December 2023
Please edit the comment, on the third line of the code, replacing the current with the following:
 * Please, add this template's categories to the /doc subpage and interwikis at Wikidata (see Wikidata). Thanks! Nishimoto, Gilberto Kiyoshi (talk) 13:10, 16 December 2023 (UTC)


 * The template is fully protected and can only be edited by administators. Every admin knows where to put categories and interwiki links. Therefore I do not see any benefit of this change. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:34, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay and I'm sorry. I agree that I am being unnecessarily nitpicky due to my paranoia related to Yin and Yang and the Butterfly effect. Nishimoto, Gilberto Kiyoshi (talk) 21:32, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Bug: cot works in auto-indent, but cob breaks
Per title, when replying in a thread using the visual Reply Tool, which auto-indents markup with, cot seems to function with an arbitrary number of preceding   but cob gets incorrectly parsed, resulting in all subsequent text being hatted. Going into markup and removing the indents from the template resolves the issue, but in any case any hatted text will not be indented at the same level with one's reply, disrupting reading. SamuelRiv (talk) 03:06, 15 January 2024 (UTC)