# Test Thread - Hiding Stuff on Mouseover **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 17, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497 "2014-12-17T15:31:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/1 "2014-12-17T15:31:11Z")
**Ellen Cherry** says [this] will be invisible on mouseover. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/2 "2014-12-17T15:32:40Z")
Well, I’ll be jiggered - it works! Thanks, **Ellen**. I wonder why it works. More vBulletin stuff I don’t understand. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/3 "2014-12-17T15:35:01Z")
A brand new way to screw with people’s minds. Thanks, **Ellen**! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/4 "2014-12-17T15:47:45Z")
That’s brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/5 "2014-12-17T15:56:19Z")
[This thread has been done several times before.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=695697) ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/6 "2014-12-17T16:00:32Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > **Ellen Cherry** says [this] will be invisible on mouseover. > > Regards, > Shodan I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. It was visible to me without mouseover. I’m using Chrome. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/7 "2014-12-17T16:05:27Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/8 "2014-12-17T16:14:05Z")
Yes, only the “this” was in brackets. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/9 "2014-12-17T20:00:04Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. It was visible to me without mouseover. I’m using Chrome. 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. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/10 "2014-12-17T20:08:19Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > 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]? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/11 "2014-12-17T21:17:43Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > That’s brilliant. I’d probably say “mildly interesting,” but it’s possible that I’m missing the brilliance somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/12 "2014-12-18T06:42:27Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/13 "2014-12-18T13:42:05Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > it’s possible that I’m missing the brilliance somehow. The brilliance is in brackets. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/14 "2014-12-18T19:05:28Z")
Using chrome, the word “this” and the brackets were clearly visible. Mousing over had no effect. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/15 "2014-12-18T19:18:29Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/16 "2014-12-18T20:15:19Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Well, I’ll be jiggered - it works! Thanks, **Ellen**. > > I wonder why it works. More vBulletin stuff I don’t understand. > > Regards, > Shodan It mistakenly thinks [this] is a markup tag when rendering the mouseover. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/17 "2014-12-18T20:24:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-hiding-stuff-on-mouseover/707497/18 "2014-12-18T20:49:44Z")
In other words, [this](http://i.imgur.com/6S0z6Px.png), not [this.](http://i.imgur.com/F20a8Fl.png)