# Test: Hide Spoiler in tooltip on mouse over

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-spoiler-in-tooltip-on-mouse-over/352626>\
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**Created:** [April 14, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-spoiler-in-tooltip-on-mouse-over/352626 "2006-04-14T04:38:18Z")\
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**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:** [April 14, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-spoiler-in-tooltip-on-mouse-over/352626/1 "2006-04-14T04:38:18Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Nest the spoiler tag in the quote tag to prevent spoilers at the beginning of the thead to be revealed when you mouse over the tooltip. I hate that. This would be great if it worked.

Need a few more lines of text.  
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  
That should do it.

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**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:** [April 14, 2006, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-spoiler-in-tooltip-on-mouse-over/352626/2 "2006-04-14T04:40:02Z")

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> [@Dooku](#):
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> Need a few more lines of text.  
> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  
> That should do it.

HAH! It worked! Maybe we could suggest this to people who use the Spoiler tag at the beginning of their message so you can’t read Spoiler text while previewing the tooltip?

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-spoiler-in-tooltip-on-mouse-over/352626/3 "2006-04-14T19:12:25Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Just make sure you nest them in the right order

I’ve also heard that including an extra layer of brackets will help, like this:

[The butler did it]  
But I would need to make a new test thread to actually test that, and I’m too lazy to do so.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-spoiler-in-tooltip-on-mouse-over/352626/4 "2006-04-15T03:50:45Z")

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I hate those stupid ugly tooltips.

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**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-spoiler-in-tooltip-on-mouse-over/352626/5 "2006-04-16T02:58:15Z")

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I actually enjoy them. On slower computers, it lets me see if I’m interested in a thread without taking the time it would take to open it.