How to make collapse closed by default?

[BigJohnny]

no you just need some code in a template...

Here is one I use, it opens and closes when you click the arrow icon..

Replace all occurances of VARIABLE with whatever variable you choose to name it.

I dont know PHP all too well, so I dont know how you would work this into PHP but im sure you could figure something out.

you can see basically there is a a collapsable table, and the tbody which contains the information to be collapsed.

the rest is just a simple table template basically.... using another "bits" template for the content.

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">
	<thead>
		<tr>
		<td class="tcat" colspan="5" align="left" width="100%">
<a style="float:$stylevar[left]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('VARIABLE')">Main Header</a>
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('VARIABLE')"><img id="collapseimg_VARIABLE" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat$vbcollapse[collapseimg_VARIABLE].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
		</td>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody id="collapseobj_VARIABLE" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_VARIABLE]">

			<td class="thead" width="2%" align="left"></td>
			<td class="thead" width="11%" align="left"><b>Title 1</b></td>
			<td class="thead" width="49%" align="left"><b>Title 2</b></td>
			<td class="thead" width="18%" align="left"><b>Title 3</b></td>
			<td class="thead" width="26%" align="left"><b>Title 4</b></td>

		$tablebits
                
	</tbody> 
</table>
<div class="spacer"></div>
<br />

errr... sorry i misread the topic... so i may not have even answered your question... apologies for the wasted space