I recently created a thread and used spoiler tags in that thread.
But I first searched high and low trying to find out how one used spoiler tags and couldn’t find a thing.
I tried creating a TEST thread in the forum “About this Message Board” but for some reason (possibly because I am not terribly bright), it didn’t work for me. But then I got it to work just by accident.
I expected to find the answer in the FAQ tag above but … no such luck!
If possible, could you please put instructions how to use spoiler tags in a more prominent position? Maybe in the FAQ tag above?
Please excuse me if that info currently does exist there and I just missed it.
I never could remember how on earth to format the spoiler tags either.
Simple way. Click the Quote button. Change the word QUOTE to SPOILER that way you don’t have to worry about / or \ or the other formatting bs. That’s saved me quite a bit of grief and indigestion. Works flawlessly every time.
Don’t click the “quote” button below someone’s post. Click the quote button above your text box. It looks like a cartoon text balloon. You can highlight the words you want to be in the spoiler/quote box and then click it for even faster results.
One helpful trick when trying figure out how someone did most formatting (strike through, italics etc) is to actually quote the person’s post, by clicking the “quote” button. The formatting tags will be revealed and you can see how they did it (usually). Then just cancel the post.
It also helps if you’re of the runoff or troff generation, when ALL text formatting was done with plain-text commands interspersed with the text. The exact commands and their format all differed, but back in the day we all got accustomed to using plain-text commands.
