SPOILERS

[Drizzt.1796]

How do we do spoilers? Like this (spoiler) ?

[Danikat.8537]

You type [ spoiler ] without the spaces before the text you want to hide and [/ spoiler ] without spaces after it.

Like this:

 

Now this text is hidden, so you have to click on it to read it.

 

[notebene.3190]

Just remember they don't work in the subject (or at least I don't think they do). :)

[Drizzt.1796]

so like this

This?

[Drizzt.1796]

 

this?

[HnRkLnXqZ.1870]

Why not using the format options in the editor?

1.) Write a text.2.) Mark the text.3.) Click on Format in the tool-bar right above the text-box (6th symbol from left).4.) Click on Spoiler

Example:

! This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text.! - This is a Sample Point with Text.! - This is a Sample Point with Text.! - This is a Sample Point with Text.!! This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text. This is a Sample Text.

OR type ">!" at the beginning of every line you wish to be seen as a spoiler.

Note: The text-editor on this board has its limits. If you are looking for more options to format your text, you can also check this collection.

[Drizzt.1796]

Like This?>! This?

[Danikat.8537]

@Drizzt.1796 said:Like This?>! This?

It needs to be at the start of a line, not in the middle of one.

[Drizzt.1796]

every time i do it it says "Body is 1 character too short." (I pasted it)

[Drizzt.1796]

Even if its a very long message

[Randulf.7614]

Just highlight the text you write and then change format to spoiler

! as per the above image someone posted.Just make sure you move the spoiler text is always at the start of a line not midway

[HnRkLnXqZ.1870]

Ok. We try something else. The forum also has a quote feature, which allows you to literally copy what ever the person you quote wrote. So when I quote your tries, I see:1.) with the

-tag, you are using only one of the tags. The tags only work when you put your text between them.

2.) Using the format option/symbols, you wrote "Like This?>! This?"The forum can use html-tags, tags with [] and those special formats with signs. Combining them often results in chaos. The machine behind the forum is a dumb computer that only knows a few commands. It knows the symbol for a Spoiler ">!" and it also knows that "?" is a question-mark. But if you write "?>!" the computer does not know what you mean and executes nothing = unknown command.

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Although I am not a huge fan of doubleposts, the next post I make is an example. Please click on the Quote link below it to see how the spoiler was created and compare it with your attempts. This way you may figure out the problem.

[HnRkLnXqZ.1870]

Hello,

this is a sample text. Below you will see a spoiler with the forum-format option

! Sample Text! Sample Text! Sample Text

and here is the same spoiler with the [] tag option

 

Sample TextSample TextSample Text

 

[Drizzt.1796]

 

This?

[Randulf.7614]

@Drizzt.1796 said:

This?

No, {spoiler] goes at the front and at the end you add

 

! This

Or Type what you want and highlight it and select the format from the drop down - use the instructions in HnRkLnXqZ.1870 first post further up your thread.

[Drizzt.1796]

 

this is confusing.

[Drizzt.1796]

{/spoiler] this is confusing.

[Danikat.8537]

@"Drizzt.1796" said:

this is confusing.

Tags like this have to go both before and after the text so the computer knows when to start and when to end the formatting. At the moment you are only putting one tag, and it's the end one, which means you're giving the computer useless information.

Type [spoiler ] - this means "the text after this is a spoiler and needs to be hidden". Then type the thing you want to hide. Then type [/spoiler ] - this means "ok you're done hiding text, close up the spoiler box.

[spoiler ]This is the text you want to hide

 

Take the space out of the tag in the line above and it does this:

This is the text you want to hide

 

[Drizzt.1796]

[spoiler ] Like this?

 

[Danikat.8537]

@Drizzt.1796 said:[spoiler ] Like this?

 

Almost. You need to take the space out from between the world spoiler and the bracket. I put that in there so the code was visible, otherwise it would just turn into a spoiler box.

[Drizzt.1796]

so

This????????

 

[Drizzt.1796]

Yes!

I did it!

 

[Drizzt.1796]

@Danikat.8537 said:

@Drizzt.1796 said:[spoiler ] Like this?

 

Almost. You need to take the space out from between the world spoiler and the bracket. I put that in there so the code was visible, otherwise it would just turn into a spoiler box.

Ty!

so much!