hey, can i do "spoilers"?

[El_Bastardo]

hey, Max guy!

you know how some message boards allow you to hide stuff from people that don't want to see it, like spoilers and such, so they have to click on it in order to see it.

can i do that here?

 

[maxd]

Oh yes, Mr. PotatoHead, you can!

They're called "Spoilers", surprise surprise, and they look like this:
[noparse]

Spoiler

hidden text goes here

[/noparse]

That would show as follows in your post:

Spoiler

hidden text goes here

Of course they can be longer too, like this:

Spoiler

Lovely spam, wonderful spa-a-m,
Lovely spam, wonderful S Spam,
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am,
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am,
SPA-A-A-A-A-A-A-AM,
SPA-A-A-A-A-A-A-AM,
LOVELY SPAM, LOVELY SPAM,
LOVELY SPAM, LOVELY SPAM,
LOVELY SPA-A-A-A-AM...
SPA-AM, SPA-AM, SPA-AM, SPA-A-A-AM!

(c) Monty Python

But use them properly, yes? The rules regarding offensive and inappropriate material, copyrighted stuff, etc still applies whether you stick them in a spoiler or not.

 

[SlotMonster]

Max, maybe you should post a message with all possible scripts (with brief explanation for every), but not to answer for every message like this?

 

[The Dude]

The answer for your question is here...

Spoiler

We'll be updating the forum FAQ to reflect all of these.

 

[SlotMonster]

Not bad

Spoiler

Bryan, you always as quick with answer as bullet :notworthy

 

[cynthial]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

I can't figure out how to do this and can't find it in the FAQ section.

Oh Slotmonster, come on out and teach me how to do this please.

 

[maxd]

@cynthia: I'll be writing a section for the FAQ on this stuff this week ... but in the meantime let me take a shot at helping you out.

The stuff you want to appear in the spoiler needs to be surrounded by the [noparse]

Spoiler

and

[/noparse] tags, just like when you make something bold you surround it with the [noparse] and [/noparse] tags. So if you wanted to put "Hello world!" in a spoiler you would type something like this:

[noparse]

Spoiler

Hello world!

[/noparse]

(you can copy that and paste it into your own post, or PM, if you want to test it.)

Or, of course, you could string it all together like this:

[noparse]

Spoiler

Hello world!

[/noparse]

So, here's what that would produce:

Spoiler

Hello world!

The point is that [noparse]

Spoiler

[/noparse]

Spoiler

comes at the beginning of the stuff that will be hidden and [noparse]

[/noparse] ends it.

Does that help?

PS. the red stuff is stuff that you would type into your post ... you don't need to make it red, I just did that to make it clear what was to be typed.

 

[RobWin]

Let me try this...

Spoiler

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET !! Learned something new here...

 

[jas2587]

Rob

Spoiler

Good Job

lol

Cindy

 

[same_old]

Spoiler

like this

I'm a bloody expert at this already... you are a very smart man Same_old