REQUEST: Spoiler Tags

[Kilroy]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=1222297

Bose kind of gave away the answer in that thread, but he could have posted the answer without ruining it for everyone. If we had spoiler tags:

Spoiler :

This text would match the background

 

[anarres]

I think the problem with that is the background not only changes per style, but also changes alternately for each reply. I imagine the changes you want are not easily implemented...

 

[Dell19]

It would be possible though and someone might have already made a function that allows you to hide text until some clicks on a particular symbol or something.

 

[Kilroy]

Originally posted by anarres
I think the problem with that is the background not only changes per style, but also changes alternately for each reply. I imagine the changes you want are not easily implemented...

Well, I've seen them implemented on several other forums which also use VB, so it isn't impossible.

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

I have seen them fuction on VBB with alternating post backgrounds. I do not know about multiple styles.

 

[Kilroy]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
I have seen them fuction on VBB with alternating post backgrounds. I do not know about multiple styles.

Most places I've seen just match the text with the background. One forum I've visited blacks out all the spoiler text (like someone ran a magic marker over the text), and when you mouseover the text, it turns white. Pretty nifty.

 

[anarres]

Interesting! I guess VBB is pretty clever then - I just assumed they were straight tag code to HTML conversions...


Edit:

...hmm, maybe the background colour is a variable and it just sets it to that...

 

[Turner]

That would be the way I do it. . . but then, I'm not on the VBB development team.

I've seen this done too, but can't remember where. . . it was that matrix explained link to another site tho, I do remember that.

 

[MajorGeneral2]

That would be a good idea. However, couldn't we simply ask posters to do something like this:

**SPOILER WARNING**
spoiler here

**END SPOILER**

Seems much more economical to me.

 

[Dell19]

But you might still read it as if you scroll down quickly you could easily miss those warnings...