# Spoilers

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoilers/412428
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [July 19, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoilers/412428 "2007-07-19T19:06:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoilers/412428/1 "2007-07-19T19:06:30Z")

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This is how you post a spoiler:

You put it in brackets like this.

What do spoilers-in-spoilers look like:

[spoiler]Not this part…

but this part.

[/spoiler]

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### Author: ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoilers/412428/2 "2007-07-20T22:42:57Z")

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That _is_ how you code spoilers. Important item to note, however: you can see the content of your first spoiler in the mouse-over preview (at least with Firefox running on OSX).

Not sure what keeps it from showing up…

GT