I would like to create a read more link that would extend a paragraph already being shown to reveal the entire text on the same page. If this could be solves with HTML5 and
You can do it, change the property of CSS via Javascript.
element.style.display = 'block';
JS code
function read_more() { document.getElementById('hidden-first').style.display = 'block'; } document.getElementById('read-more').addEventListener('click', read_more);
See this code on JSfiddle