# Spoiler tags broken? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 20, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-broken/361369 "2006-06-20T00:20:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-broken/361369/1 "2006-06-20T00:20:01Z")
They don’t seem to be working. test ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-broken/361369/2 "2006-06-20T00:39:36Z")
test ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-broken/361369/3 "2006-06-20T00:40:52Z")
Nope, don’t seem to be working. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-broken/361369/4 "2006-06-20T00:51:54Z")
Same here. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-broken/361369/5 "2006-06-20T02:06:47Z")
Neither the del tags that strike words: [del]delete[/del] Let me see the other tags. Size looks ok. Font looks ok too. Color ok. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-broken/361369/6 "2006-06-20T02:13:13Z")
[sub]Sub not working either[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-broken/361369/7 "2006-06-20T02:56:07Z")
[genius] Hngurghk! [/genius] Dang. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-broken/361369/8 "2006-06-20T03:08:27Z")
All the default vB tags ( **bold** , _italic_, underline and link) should work. It’s just the custom ones that are broken. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-broken/361369/9 "2006-06-20T04:56:04Z")
[Here’s the thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=359755) for the last time this happened. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-broken/361369/10 "2006-06-20T14:30:36Z")
Not sure why this happens, but I go in and replace them and they work fine. For a while. Go figure.