Tend to use my phone on the board. Still using what is probably an old-fashioned way to get [i] italics or make font bold [/b]. How can I hide text or change its size or colour?
[an easy way?] text [/an easy way?]
Tend to use my phone on the board. Still using what is probably an old-fashioned way to get [i] italics or make font bold [/b]. How can I hide text or change its size or colour?
[an easy way?] text [/an easy way?]
There are two easy ways. Both can be found in the little gear menu when you are typing a post. Select the text you want to hide and then click on the gear and select either the little triangle pointing to the right that says “hide detail” or the wand that says “blur spoiler”.
Hide detail
blah blah blah, long boring details.
Blur spoiler you didn’t want to be spoiled, did you?
I haven’t figured out how to change the size or color of the text, though. I think it can be done with codes, but I don’t think there’s a friendly point&click way to do it.
Here’s a guide:
There are several options listed for increasing/decreasing text sizes. The most familiar are:
Type <small> … Small …</small>
<big> … Big …</big>
Strikethough = [s] strikethough [/s] or ~~strikethrough~~
To create a line, put 3 asterisks on their own line:
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bookmarked, thanks.
Thanks!
Now I can do anything except hide/blur text!
see the second post, where I explained how to do that.
Or… are you looking for codes to type? the [spoiler] tags work for blurring text. Put a / before the word spoiler in the square brackets to mark the end of the blurred section.
Use [details=“Summary”] for the arrow version. I haven’t tested it, but I expect that you can change the word “summary” to something else. And it’s just “/details” in the closing tag.
Thanks!
I was looking for codes, but spoiler is it. The gear was in a submenu. Now I can use emojis. If that was the type of thing I did.
Ah. I have trouble remembering magic words, so anything that needs a code is harder for me than anything i can do from a menu. Which is why I’m sad there are no menu items for most of the formatting I’d like to do. It basically means that is now all inaccessible to me.
I’m glad to see LaTeX is still around. I had to learn that for an Honour’s Thesis decades ago. A great piece of programming.
Can we have spoilers within spoilers? Lemme try it here:
How many Marin County psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Only one, provided the lightbulb really wants to change.
ETA: Okay, that kinda-sorta works, but I see several bugs already.
I think the [details] … [/details] feature behaves a bit more like the vBulletin spoilers did.
The blur is great and is cleaner than the old vB spoiler. Details isn’t bad but not as obvious. I think a lot of people will miss that it is there.
And you can spoiler emojis!
I found, when I played with nested spoilers above, that there are some quirks in how they behave. I haven’t done any similar experiments with [details] yet. Maybe I’ll get a round tuit some day soon.
You can always make your [details] block a bit more obvious by putting your own caption on it:
Made you look!
Okay, now we know.
Well, well, that does seem to work as one might wish. So nested [details] block are a useful thing!