# Multiple spoilers, preview text

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-spoilers-preview-text/524198
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [January 8, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-spoilers-preview-text/524198 "2010-01-08T20:17:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-spoilers-preview-text/524198/1 "2010-01-08T20:17:57Z")

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Note: Please don’t post to this for 5 minutes so that I can still edit, thanks!

testing

Huh - I thought someone said that spoilers in the box don’t appear on rollover preview even if you haven’t added a bunch of .return.return.etc.

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### Author: ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-spoilers-preview-text/524198/2 "2010-01-08T20:59:00Z")

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> [@Munch](#):
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> Note: Please don’t post to this for 5 minutes so that I can still edit, thanks!

OK

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### Author: ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2010, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-spoilers-preview-text/524198/3 "2010-01-09T08:07:20Z")

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The contents of a [noparse]

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> [/noparse]_quote box_

don’t.

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### Author: ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-spoilers-preview-text/524198/4 "2010-01-09T19:08:48Z")

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An interesting question - how do you get it so the spoiler can’t be seen by rolling the mouse over the thread title? Lines and lines of text? Is there a set number of lines beyond which the boxed spoiler text can’t be seen? I’m curious…
