Replace ellipses with number of items that can be expanded.

[lawrencechernin]

for example
change:

• {...},

to

• {6},

[bhollis]

That's an interesting idea. I'll try it out and see if it's confusing.

[bhollis]

I'm doing this with CSS, so it's hard to do the count.

[stanio]

I think it would be better to inline all child items, possibly grayed out, cutting off to a single (the first) line, possibly using text-overflow: ellipsis to indicate there's more to show. This style I've seen with few other apps including the new built-in Firefox JSON viewer (which I don't like as I like JSONView). I'll try to prepare the styles for demonstration.

[stanio]

Haven't had the time to look into implementing this into a PR but here's what I mean:

• Option 1: Inline all of the object/array content, and display ellipsis on overflow

• Option 2: Same as Option 1 but always collapse nested object/array into ellipsis

Collapsing the view further:

• If the view is wide enough whole of the collapsed object/array is visible on one line:

To implement this I'll need to add class="collapsed" to parent LI elements encapsulating the property name and the object/array value, and then add few CSS rules involving display: flex, and text-overflow: ellipsis as mentioned before.

[bhollis]

I like that! Would you be able to send a PR for it?

The only thing to keep in mind is that copy-paste should preserve valid JSON.

[bhollis]

This is related to #131.

[stanio]

@bhollis:

I like that! Would you be able to send a PR for it?

The only thing to keep in mind is that copy-paste should preserve valid JSON.

I'm able to prepare a PR for it, now that I have some free time on my hands, but I've played with it a bit more, and realized the original formatting could not be kept as currently is (on copy+paste) as the collapsed nested content would be forced inline. If that's not absolute showstopper(?) I will go ahead and prepare a PR for this. May be we could have this behavior behind a preference?

[bhollis]

Thanks for taking a look! I'll see if I can get some free time this weekend to go over what you're proposing.

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