Ellen Cherry says [this] will be invisible on mouseover.
Regards,
Shodan
Well, I’ll be jiggered - it works! Thanks, Ellen.
I wonder why it works. More vBulletin stuff I don’t understand.
Regards,
Shodan
A brand new way to screw with people’s minds. Thanks, Ellen! 
That’s brilliant.
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. It was visible to me without mouseover. I’m using Chrome.
Was the word “this” visible? that’s the only part in brackets. You can see it in the message but not on mouseover.
I’m on Chrome, too and the word “this” was not visible on mouseover, but is visible in the message itself.
Yes, only the “this” was in brackets.
Regards,
Shodan
And I’m using Firefox, and the word “this” within brackets was equally visible with our without mouseover. ETA: as were the brackets themselves. Nothing was hidden from me. MWAHAHAHA!
It’s like someone told a joke and I’m completely not getting it.
So you are going to the ATMB forum and looking at the list of thread titles, hovering your mouse over the title (mouse over, not clicking) and you see [this]?
I’d probably say “mildly interesting,” but it’s possible that I’m missing the brilliance somehow.
If y’all care to peek through the earlier threads (linked by Shakes above), there were people doing some very creative tricks with this. You can make the mouseover preview say something very different than what the actual post says – Very reminiscent of the captions on MAD Fold-Ins.
(ETA: The thread that Shakes linked contains, in turn, links to several earlier ones.)
The brilliance is in brackets.
Using chrome, the word “this” and the brackets were clearly visible. Mousing over had no effect.
I don’t think you’re understanding correctly. I’m using Chrome and can’t see anything in the brackets when mousing over the THREAD TITLE.
It mistakenly thinks [this] is a markup tag when rendering the mouseover.
To make it (hopefully) 100% clear: Go to the ATMB forum listing, not to any one individual thread. Hover (but do not click) over one of the thread title links. A box will appear, showing the first few lines of the OP. This is the mouseover that everyone is talking about. If, from the ATMB forum listing, you mouse over this thread’s title, then the brackets, and everything inside of them, should be hidden on this mouseover view.
