# How to spoiler something
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-spoiler-something/926192
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**Created:** [November 22, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-spoiler-something/926192 "2020-11-22T14:46:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-spoiler-something/926192/1 "2020-11-22T14:46:42Z")
Just testing to see how spoilers work:
cover up
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-spoiler-something/926192/2 "2020-11-22T14:52:14Z")
Besides manually adding the SPOILER tags there are two mousing methods to do spoilers.
Once you have you text in place. Click the little gear icon at the far right of the edit box tool bar.
Hide Details is a nice option.
> **Summary**
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> 1 something
> 2 something else
> 3 more
Or Blur Spoilers which does what the tags do.
This is my spoiler
The gear is also where the Poll Building function hides.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-spoiler-something/926192/3 "2020-11-22T16:29:15Z")
Even more about spoilers:
> [@Nested spoilers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-spoilers/919916):
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> I found an old thread that I’d posted in a few years back - in which I had posted something with two or perhaps 3 levels of spoilers. You can click on the blurred bit - which displays the outermost spoiler, Then a grayed bit showing the next level - but clicking on that just hides the whole thing again. Fixable?
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-spoiler-something/926192/4 "2020-11-22T22:43:14Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> Hide Details is a nice option.
Cool! I wondered how that was done.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-spoiler-something/926192/5 "2020-11-22T23:45:54Z")
Click the little gear icon and look for hide detail.
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### Author:  [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-spoiler-something/926192/6 "2020-11-23T20:00:01Z")
Just testing.
Another test.
Underline.
[small]This is small.[/small]
OK, how do people do the small font?
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2020, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-spoiler-something/926192/7 "2020-11-23T21:14:56Z")
Small belongs in angle brackets, not square brackets. Like \
For more on sizes see this post and below:
> [@How do you do imbedded quotes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/12):
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> Depending on which UI style your audience is using and whether on a phone or a computer, your audience may see insert as bold and delete as strikethough, both with no color. Or they may see them as green and pink highlighter respectively. Or maybe something else altogether. Easy Peasy. You can go 3 steps of small, smaller, smallest . But only one of Big, Not Bigger (but should be).
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### Author:  [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-spoiler-something/926192/8 "2020-11-23T21:37:04Z")
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-spoiler-something/926192/9 "2020-11-23T21:58:36Z")
Small is \< small \> \ (remove the spaces)
So small