# spoiler tags

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags/183090>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 20, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags/183090 "2003-06-20T04:29:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Cormac36](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@Cormac36](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cormac36)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags/183090/1 "2003-06-20T04:29:32Z")

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Ok, folks, reading the thread about things we want to see in the new Harry Potter book, I noticed that for some reason I’m not able to view the contents of the spoiler tags. I use Mozilla 1.1 for a browser. Any idea on what the problem might be?

Cormac?

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**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags/183090/2 "2003-06-20T05:40:05Z")

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They don’t work in Opera 6.x either. Grab Opera 7. 😃

(or do what I did - copy and paste their contents to notepad. It’s a pain, I know, but it’s the price we renegades sometimes have to pay)

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**Author:** ![nebco9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@nebco9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nebco9)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-tags/183090/3 "2003-06-20T07:25:18Z")

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You can click on the “quote” button at the bottom of the post. The reply screen that comes up will show the spoiler.