# Spoiler test

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-test/455472>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [July 6, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-test/455472 "2008-07-06T18:01:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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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:** [July 6, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-test/455472/1 "2008-07-06T18:01:13Z")

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[testing whether this text within brackets shows up when the mouse pointer hovers over the thread title]

Is this the only thing I see?

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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:** [July 6, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-test/455472/2 "2008-07-06T18:02:32Z")

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Far out. Might be a good way to handle OP spoilers in CS.

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-test/455472/3 "2008-07-06T18:15:15Z")

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I see everything without hovering over anything. When I hover, nothing changes.

I’m using FF3.

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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:** [July 6, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-test/455472/4 "2008-07-06T18:22:07Z")

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Okay. Must be an IE thing. I don’t see the bracketed text. So not good for CS after all.

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**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-test/455472/5 "2008-07-06T18:35:18Z")

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I don’t see the bracketed text in mouse-over, and I’m using FF as well. Perhaps there’s a confusion that ‘hovering the mouse over the thread title’ means doing that before entering the thread, on the page that shows only the thread titles (is there a name for that? Title page?)?

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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:** [July 6, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-test/455472/6 "2008-07-06T19:29:32Z")

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[QUOTE=Half Man Half Wit]  
I don’t see the bracketed text in mouse-over, and I’m using FF as well.  
[/QUOTE]  
Okay, cool. Thanks for reporting that. Back to good again. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-test/455472/7 "2008-07-07T08:55:37Z")

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I can’t see it on mouse-over, using Opera. Just curious, what made you think to try this?

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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:** [July 7, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-test/455472/8 "2008-07-07T13:09:28Z")

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[QUOTE=1920s Style “Death Ray”]  
I can’t see it on mouse-over, using Opera. Just curious, what made you think to try this?  
[/QUOTE]  
When the bracketed text of [this OP](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=474391) in the Pit didn’t show up on my mouse hover.

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**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-test/455472/9 "2008-07-07T13:55:17Z")

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I agree with **1/2** ; this should work for any browser, as the HTML is: \<td class=“alt1Active” id=“t474479” title=“Is this the only thing I see?”\>

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-test/455472/10 "2008-07-07T16:32:08Z")

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I don’t see the bracketed text. I’m using FF.