# \[spoiler\] tags: Is it possible? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 16, 2001, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-is-it-possible/93827 "2001-11-16T21:55:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-is-it-possible/93827/21 "2001-11-27T05:10:44Z")
Ah, I was thinking there might be some little check box to make the html you did work the same way as the url tags, e.g. a “parse forward / backward?” option. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-is-it-possible/93827/22 "2001-11-27T05:28:25Z")
That would be cool, but I know of nothing. I do know how it could be done, but only via php coding. There is an alternate way to do spoiler hiding that a vBulletin developer pointed me too, but it is not nearly as nice as this way would have been - had it worked without problems. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-is-it-possible/93827/23 "2001-11-27T06:11:58Z")
I wonder how many unseen consequences of this new tag there already are? Tretiak and I believe many other have used it in jest long before it became the real thing as in the 1st post for this thread. Neat concept though, and good idea Tretiak. I like new toys and look forward to the day I can use it. ---
**Author:** ![P.W.Doodle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f14d63/32.png) [@P.W.Doodle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P.W.Doodle)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-is-it-possible/93827/24 "2001-11-27T10:07:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* > \*\*Perhaps TubaDiva will forgive you, but I never never will. Unless you send me $20 in small unmarked bills. \*\* ::chewing on lower lip:: But, but…but, Arnold I don’t have any “small,unmarked bills”. ::flips hair over her shoulder:: Can’t we like…you know, come up with some other arrangements? Polly ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-is-it-possible/93827/25 "2001-11-27T12:32:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gunslinger \* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > > \*\*Since the Mods(in MPSIMS) have said the posts in French, morse code etc. are too much to deal with i.e. c&ping them into a translator. I doubt they’ll go with this idea. \*\* > > Yes, but with the symbol font, all you have to do is click the “quote” button… AAAAHHHH. I like the spolier box. Very cool. Hopefully it goes live. ---
**Author:** ![abuse\_angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@abuse\_angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abuse_angel)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-is-it-possible/93827/26 "2001-11-27T13:53:38Z")
isn’t {spoiler} {/spoiler} the customary “fake tag” to use with a spoiler? perhaps it wasn’t a good idea to create a tag by the same name that you don’t want people to use. it seems to me that a lot of people will use it unwittingly, not even knowing that a real tag exists. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-is-it-possible/93827/27 "2001-11-27T15:14:19Z")
Though I think I see your point, **abuse angel** , I for one think the presence of existing uses of the proposed tag just argues more strongly for it. Think of all the existing posts that suddenly will have this new feature. It’s like re-writing history! If SDMB ever adds sound support, I nominate [Homer] as the first tag to be backed up with real sounds! ---
**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:** [November 27, 2001, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-is-it-possible/93827/28 "2001-11-27T19:59:26Z")
Can’t get it to work in this version of vB, folks. Sorry. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags-is-it-possible/93827/29 "2001-11-27T20:03:51Z")
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