- Where to find it
- Labelled Show More After in the "Selected Component" section of the Modify drawer.
- Offered by
- The Text component. Other components do not have this setting.
- Per device
- Yes — you can set one value for every screen, or separate values for phone, tablet, and desktop.
In plain English
Leave this empty and the whole text shows, as it always has. Type a positive whole number and the text collapses after that many characters a reader can see, followed by an ellipsis and a Show more control they can open.
The count is what a reader actually reads: markers such as {b|…} and {.1|…} count as their visible words, and placeholders count as the values filled in. Leading and trailing spaces are ignored, runs of spaces inside count as one, and the cut always ends on a whole word rather than mid-word. A {{ … }} placeholder is never cut in half — the cut backs up to before the word that contains it.
It is per device, which is the main reason to use it. A long paragraph that fits a desktop column can overwhelm a phone; set a lower limit for phones and leave desktop empty, or set both to different budgets, so each size gets a comfortable first look.
The full text stays in the page's HTML either way — collapsed or not — so search engines and screen readers still see every word. The toggle itself works with no JavaScript: a checkbox and CSS in the component's stylesheet.
When you would use it
- A long description or bio that should start short on phones and open up for readers who want more.
- A lower character budget on phones than on desktop, where the same copy has more room.
- Any text that is useful in full for search, but too long to show all at once.
How to change it
- Click the text component on the canvas.
- In the Modify drawer, open "Selected Component", then "Show More After".
- Type a positive whole number, or clear the field to always show the whole text.
- Uncheck "Same value for all resolutions" to set a different budget per device.
Watch out for
- Zero, negatives, decimals and anything that is not a whole number leave the feature off — the same as leaving the field empty.
- If the text already fits the budget, or cutting would leave only whitespace on one side, nothing collapses and there is no toggle.
- The labels for the toggle are separate settings: Show More Label and Show Less Label.
Related settings
Where to go next
- Back to the Text component — everything else it can do.
- The Composer — the editing surface these settings live in.
- Publishing — how a change like this reaches your live site.