# Spoiler tag does not hide text from tooltip preview

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**Created:** [April 17, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tag-does-not-hide-text-from-tooltip-preview/240576 "2004-04-17T22:15:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tag-does-not-hide-text-from-tooltip-preview/240576/1 "2004-04-17T22:15:06Z")

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Just a heads up for people, especially in Cafe Society. I learned this one the hard way.

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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:** [April 17, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tag-does-not-hide-text-from-tooltip-preview/240576/2 "2004-04-17T23:47:44Z")

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Oddly enough, quote tags do hide the text from the mouse-over preview, so any spoilers in your OP will be safe if you do this.

[quote]

[spoiler]Spoiler text[/spoiler]  
[/quote]  
without the extra spaces, like this.

> [@](#):
>
> Spoiler text

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**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tag-does-not-hide-text-from-tooltip-preview/240576/3 "2004-04-18T01:34:48Z")

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FWIW, I think this is because the quote tag is a built-in feature of vBulletin, so it just ignores quotes because they usually don’t help determine the content of a thread. But I believe the spoiler tag is an add-on, so the board software doesn’t know to keep it out of the previews.

Of course, I could be wrong.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tag-does-not-hide-text-from-tooltip-preview/240576/4 "2004-04-18T19:50:52Z")

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Not at all, I think you’re correct here, cheddarsnax.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator