diff -urBN --exclude=.svn --exclude=.git --exclude=.DS_Store /Users/binneyd/Downloads/topcoll/format.php ./topcoll/format.php
--- /your-topcoll/format.php	2010-11-08 08:14:00.000000000 +1000
+++ ./my-topcoll/format.php	2011-01-04 18:11:26.000000000 +1000
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
       
 
     require_once($CFG->libdir.'/ajax/ajaxlib.php');
+    require_once($CFG->dirroot.'/course/format/topcoll/lib/lib.php');
 	
 	// For persistence of toggles.
 	require_js(array('yui_yahoo', 'yui_cookie', 'yui_event'));
@@ -237,7 +238,7 @@
 				$thissection->summary='';
 				echo '<td colspan="3"><a id="sectionatag-'.$section.'" class="cps_nosumm" href="#" onclick="toggle_topic(this,'.$section.'); return false;">'.$topictext.' '.$currenttext.$section.' - '.$toggletext.'</a></td>';
 			} else {
-				echo '<td colspan="2"><a id="sectionatag-'.$section.'" href="#" onclick="toggle_topic(this,'.$section.'); return false;"><span>'.html_to_text($thissection->summary).'</span> - '.$toggletext.'</a></td><td class="cps_centre">'.$topictext.'<br />'.$currenttext.$section.'</td>';
+				echo '<td colspan="2"><a id="sectionatag-'.$section.'" href="#" onclick="toggle_topic(this,'.$section.'); return false;"><span>'. get_title($thissection->summary) .'</span> - '.$toggletext.'</a></td><td class="cps_centre">'.$topictext.'<br />'.$currenttext.$section.'</td>';
 				// Comment out the above line and uncomment the line below if you do not want 'Topic x' displayed on the right hand side of the toggle.
 				//echo '<td colspan="3"><a id="sectionatag-'.$section.'" href="#" onclick="toggle_topic(this,'.$section.'); return false;"><span>'.html_to_text($thissection->summary).'</span> - '.$toggletext.'</a></td>';
 			}
diff -urBN --exclude=.svn --exclude=.git --exclude=.DS_Store /Users/binneyd/Downloads/topcoll/lib/lib.php ./topcoll/lib/lib.php
--- /your-topcoll/lib/lib.php	1970-01-01 10:00:00.000000000 +1000
+++ ./my-topcoll/lib/lib.php	2011-01-04 18:00:20.000000000 +1000
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?php
+
+    function get_title($html) {
+        
+        $dom = new DOMDocument();
+        $dom->loadHTML($html);
+
+        $xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
+        $tags = $xpath->query('//*[@class="toggle-title"]');
+        
+        if ($tags->length > 0) {
+            $title = $tags->item(0)->textContent;
+        } else {
+            $title = html_to_text($html);
+            $title = substr($title, 0, 30) . "...";
+        }
+
+        return $title;
+    }
+
+?>
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