I just got it again! (yes, I have a lot of browsers.)
| abc | desf sdf sf sf sf sfsf |
| absdf s fsf sf sf sf sdc | def |
I’m assuming TPTB know about the latest banner, pinned to the top just like the last one:
CECIL’S BACK!
More to the point, the weekly Straight Dope column is back – at least for now. As so often at pivotal junctures, we provide the following FAQ:
Who’s Cecil?
One sighs. However, it’s been a long time. Cecil Adams is the world’s smartest human being, who knows everything and is never wrong. His
I know I could Refresh and get rid of it, but I like pretending Cecil’s back…
This one is real. This is what I testing for the other day.
You knew the Master was coming back and you didn’t spill the beans?!?!? You so-and-so!
testing
How do you spoiler a post?
Use spoiler tags [spoiler]like this[/spoiler] for in the middle of a sentence. (inline)
Which looks like:
Use spoiler tags like this for in the middle of a sentence. (inline)
For inline spoilers like this one, both the opening and closing tags have to be in the line of text. You can’t put the closing tag on its own line after the text or it won’t work. Unless the opening tag is also on its own line, but then it’s not an inline spoiler in the middle of a sentence anymore. You can blur an entire post by putting [spoiler] on its own line at the top and [/spoiler] on its online at the bottom.
You don’t have to type any of this, by the way. In your reply box, there’s a little gear symbol in the top right corner, below the thread title on the same line with bold and italics. If you select the text you want to spoiler, then click that little gear icon and choose Blur Spoiler from the menu, it will add those tags for you around the highlighted text. Just make sure that both the tags are inline or both are on their own lines. Discourse does not like it when you mix and match tags like that. (The old vBulletin software didn’t care.)
[details=Click to expand]
You can also hide a larger amount of text in a details box, where otherwise you may be posting a giant wall of blur. I don’t know if there’s an easy menu way to do the details box.
Pretty sure details tags must always be on their own line, both opening and closing. Put whatever you want for the title text, but click to expand is a nice generic one.
[/details]
Which looks like:
Click to expand
You can also hide a larger amount of text in a details box, where otherwise you may be posting a giant wall of blur. I don’t know if there’s an easy menu way to do the details box.
Pretty sure details tags must always be on their own line, both opening and closing. Put whatever you want for the title text, but click to expand is a nice generic one.
EDIT: If anyone is wondering how I got discourse to ignore some of these codes, add a backslash (\) immediately before any opening bracket ([) and discourse will interpret that single tag as plain text.
own line
The perils of using voice translation.
Looks like Hide Details is in the same menu popup as Blur Spoiler, so it works the same way.
Cool. Nice. I had to quote your post to see that you’d inserted a backlash before each tag to show the tag without the tag being active.
And yeah, we’ve learned a lot about spoiler tags in the last 12 months ever since we started playing Wordle. That Wordle thread, started by @Briny_Deep, has a lot of spoiler tags.
A lot of times, I’ll “quote” someone’s tag usage to see how they did something. When I quoted your post, Discourse removed your backslashes, so all of your sample spoilers / details were blurred just like the actuals.
Oh, and I’m also playing here with your gear symbol. Nice to know that’s there and I don’t have to actually remember how to manually create the codes 
(now, if they’d only add in all the formatting I’m used to in Word/Excel/etc., so I don’t have to try to remember how to do strikeouts)
Testing subscripts for a Trivia Dominoes game post.
Baker CA, population 735, lies along I-15 between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. It was founded as a railroad station in 1908 and is named after Richard C. Baker who was a business partner with Francis Marion Smith (known as the “Borax King”). Their mining operations include the Rio Tinto Borax Mine which is California’s largest open-pit mine and the largest borax mine in the world, producing nearly half the world’s borates.
A large open-pit mine can be seen on the map to the northeast of the Borax Visitor Center located at grid 35.029930, -117.687202.
Borax is a salt, a hydrated borate of sodium, with chemical formula Na2H20B4O17. Borax has many industrial and household uses, including as a pesticide, as a metal soldering flux, as a component of glass, enamel, and pottery glazes, for tanning of skins and hides, for artificial aging of wood, as a preservative against wood fungus, and as a pharmaceutic alkalizer.
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\pi inline?
That’s currently broken. There is a thread discussing it here:
You can use π inline but you have to use the π character, not the Latex / MathJax version.
Thanks. I’m aware of the thread to which you referred. I’ve been trying to figure a way to get MathJax to display inline code. This: (\pi) is supposed to work, but doesn’t.