# How to do buttons? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 7, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-do-buttons/488618 "2009-03-07T02:20:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jormungandr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@Jormungandr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jormungandr)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-do-buttons/488618/1 "2009-03-07T02:20:09Z")
How does one do buttons such as the Ludovic’s hide button in this thread, the 5th one down? > **[Things I learned from 1980s scifi movies.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=508993)** > > This is of course the sequel to this thread: You never f\*\*\* with a single mother, of any species. (Aliens) After the nuclear holocaust, there will be a brisk trade in form-fitting, fetish-style black leather clothing. (Mad Max) Yuppies are... ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-do-buttons/488618/2 "2009-03-07T02:25:24Z")
If you mean the spoiler box, you type [spoiler]text you want to be hidden[/spoiler], without the spaces inside the brackets. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-do-buttons/488618/3 "2009-03-07T02:44:58Z")
If you mean you’d like to do other buttons, I don’t believe they’re supported by our version of vBulletin. The new spoiler box in coded in. See the [New Spoiler Tag](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=507875) thread.