Title: New Feature for HN Collapsible Threads: Collapse Whole Thread
Author: Alex Kirk
Published: December 6, 2011

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# New Feature for HN Collapsible Threads: Collapse Whole Thread

December 6, 2011

I have added a feature to the [HN Collapsible Threads bookmarklet](https://alex.kirk.at/2010/02/16/collapsible-threads-for-hacker-news/)
that enables you to close a whole thread from any point within the thread:

![](https://alex.kirk.at/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/12/hn-update.png "hn-update")

This is useful when you are reading a thread and decided that you are having enough
of it and want to move on to the next thread. Before you had to scroll all the way
up to the top post and collapse that one.

Drag this to your bookmarks bar: [collapsible threads](https://alex.kirk.at/2011/12/06/new-feature-for-hn-collapsible-threads/(function()%7Bvar%20s=document.createElement('script');s.type='text/javascript';s.src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.min.js';document.documentElement.childNodes%5B0%5D.appendChild(s);s=document.createElement('script');s.type='text/javascript';s.src='https://alex.kirk.at/js/hackernews-collapsible-threads-v4.js';document.documentElement.childNodes%5B0%5D.appendChild(s);%7D)();?output_format=md)

[Install Greasemonkey script](https://alex.kirk.at/js/hacker_news_comment_coll.user.js?output_format=md)

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