Spoilers Tag
 

Since a few of you don't realize you can use the simple spoilers tag that TWT made available on the board, I started this thread so you can know what you can do with it. :D

Whenever you have something that will spoil the movie just use the following Tag:Since there I wanted you to see how it works I put the * in. To make full use out of the spoilers tag, remove the * so you get something like this:

Now, to see the spoiler, just highlight what is in the box. :)

okay, lemmie try it.


BTW- I can't read thmmie's spoiler tag on the LOTR thread.

I could, try just using the Select All option with your browser. CTRL-A will do it too. :D

Hey TWT, is there a way you can work the spoilers tag thing into the vB code little area, with the Bold, Italic, Underline, Size all that stuff? What do you think?

I meant to do that awhile ago, but I keep putting it off. I'll see if I can do it this weekend, when I'll have some time off. :)

we should have a spoil the movie thread... twt would you allow it?

Where would the fun be in that. I mean it wouldn't be much of a thread where everyone could look at it. It would spoil at least one movie for someone.

testing...

what am I doing wrong?

It doesn't react well to apostrophes...which annoys me.

oh. Bummer. I wanted to respond to something about that movie. Guess I'll do it in a PM.

Just leave the apostrophe out.

okay. Thanks.

Let me try this....



S.C.

Sounds like a good movie.... I get to be handcuffed!! :D

S.C.

Sarcasm is lost on the wicked!:p

crap! I missed the new Heather Graham movie!! :mad:

:(

it sounds like academy material......

Might as well try it here first so I don't screw up some future post

Let me give it a go...

Will it work?....

wow...i like that :dizzy:

Just thought I would try this out



EDIT: What am I doing wrong?

You need to add a title. Like this (without the asterisks):

[*spoilers=Terminator]He'll be back[/spoilers*]

Can I ask why the text doesn't appear unless you highlight it

:laugh: Because that's the entire point. :D So that people don't go reading accidently, thus inadvertantly spoiling things for them. This way people have to CHOOSE whether or not they want to see the spoilers.

I kind of figured it out after my previous comment, I just wasn't thinking about it at the time

EDIT: ONLY TOO TWO TRIES!!!

EDIT: three...

EDIT: four...

EDIT:Now I'm getting pissed and want help please

EDIT: Making it so noone can read what I type: Redookie19 is happy, Getting a good laugh when Redookie19 puts in the stupid asteriks 5 freaking times before he gets it right: You guys are jerks! Finishing....Priceless! There are somethings yelling can't get done...For everything else... Theres this guy :confused:

Lemmie try!!!

In case anyone hasn't noticed yet, there's now a button on the WYSIWYG editor to facilitate the use of the Spoilers Tag. It's the red exclamation point (http://www.movieforums.com/community...r/spoilers.gif) at the far right-hand side of the second formatting column.

If you don't see it, you're probably using either the Basic Editor, or else the Standard Editor. To switch to the Enhanced Interface, visit the Edit Options page and scroll to the bottom. It's the third option in the last dropdown menu.

Please note that this button does not work properly when using the Standard Editor (which is the compromise between the full-on MS-word style WYSIWYG editor, and the plain text box). It produces spoiler tags sans the "=" part which identifies the specific movie the spoilers refer to, and thus will not work properly as-is. I'm working on an elegant way to fix this.

Cool, not that Jesus Dies, but cool that it works.....oh crap I need to tag this sentence too.

lol. Sorry daikw. You blew it with your first post. ;)

And now you deleted all 3 of them to make me look like some dumbass who talks to himself. :blush:

i wanna try this

It would appear that you can.

Indeed it would. Ironic huh?

I dont' know about ironic...

...whatever

<bows head in shame>

Yay I got it on the second try! :D

Errrrrmm. Hate to break it to you Xui ,

Lol

Hey, you got it

It's amazing how strong this thread still is...

Yoda, i'm still having trouble with clicking view spoilers, it redirects me to the home page, can't remember if i've mentioned this before but anyway, yeh.

Yeah it worked for me once but has since stopped also.

There's a bug wherein two spoiler tags in the same post do not work; this happens also when someone quotes someone else's spoiler tags, and then adds their own. The normal ones in this thread should still work fine, however.

Oh, k, explains the hit and miss redirection. Thanks.

Why, oh why,do I read this clown's posts....

I like clowns. They're scary.

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I've always hated clowns. Grown men in make-up pretending they are your friend. That white make-up alone makes me want to gag. Ronald McDonald is another one I couldnt stand. Just look at this fool. I mean DAMN!
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/7947/ronald1by2.jpg

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when clicking view spoilers it brings me back to the homepage....what's wrong?

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There is a bug that causes the "View Spoilers" link to break when a spoilers tag appears more than once in a single post. This is because the spoilers tag reads the ID number of each post to hide and display the spoilers, so when it sees two spoiler blocks with the same ID number, it doesn't know which to display.

I've toyed around with a solution for awhile, but haven't been able to fix it yet. Thankfully, multiple spoilers in a single post are a bit rare, but I'd still love to find a way to fix this if I can. In the meantime, I hope it isn't too much of an inconvenience.

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well that's pretty interesting...let me try ti first...:p:p

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thanksssssssssssss

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Testing

Test:

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Interesting. I looked for the tag today when posting about Black Swan and ended up taking a shot in the dark with typing in code. Is there still a button that I'm missing?

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Aye; you had "spoiler" instead of "spoilers" and didn't specify a movie name (the part after the = sign). I fixed it up right after you posted it, though. :)

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So, I really don't want to cause anyone any trouble, but whatever happened to the "drop-down" spoilers on this board? I always liked those, because you could type a really long post and not stretch out the page or have a hidden image pop up or something. I have zero problem with the current spoilers, but I wonder how hard it is to get the "drop-down" spoiler up in this joint.

Again, I really don't want to cause anyone any work... just thought of it...

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I don't think we ever had anything like that. Are you thinking of another board (if so, could you send me an example)? Are "drop-down" spoilers basically just one line until you click the button, at which time they sort of expand down?

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Here's a forum that shows it (I'm not a member of it). It goes down as large as you need it, but when hidden, it only takes up a line of space.

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Yeah, I've seen those. I could certainly write something like that up without too much trouble. You think it's better?

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I frequent a forum where it is encouraged in order to make pages more readable. Especially in debate threads where the replies often take up a full page. Very rarely does it get as bad as it does in MoFos as it does there however.

If you have to actually write something, I don't think it's worth it. I thought maybe you could just "activate" it or something on vBulletin.

Seriously, don't worry about it...

Forgetting which forum you used fancy spoiler tags on? A likely story.

I think that we should consider this spam, and let Loner get in some practice with the ban hammer.

To whom it may concern . . . I'm teasing.

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I'm purposely not mentioning the name. I don't go on there as much anymore compared to here. People are way more hostile. Hence the massive spoiler tags to collapse the arguments. That's basically the reason why I'm not mentioning the name (which I actually have mentioned).

I love this place. It is an oasis of the internets.

(and I'm not only brown-nosing the mods when I say that)

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Ah, I dig. It would involve me doing something vaguely resembling work, but you make some good points about its advantages. I think the one about images and other colored text in spoilers and such is probably the most pertinent, as most people don't mind the long replies.

I'll add it to the list and see if I can come up with something good. Apart from a little effort the main thing is that I kind of like the "placeholder" look of the current ones. I'm tempted to add a second type, but that might be too confusing, so I'd probably be forced to choose.

Spoiler... Spoiler... Spoiler... Spoiler... Spoiler... Spoiler... Spoiler...




Spoiler... Spoiler... Spoiler... Spoiler... Spoiler... Spoiler... Spoiler...

NOt3: This spoiler is subjected to deletion if necessary.

I was wanting to a couple of nights ago, but you are too quick on the draw.

http://sfangels.com/images/Stimpy%20...r%20button.jpg

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Well oops, I had no idea. You may get some practice tonight, though. I'm about to split for 2-3 hours. Just so you know.

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Testing spoilers tags...

Quick test... in preparation for next month when TDKR comes out...

I just wanted to test this space and see if it worked. And to say that I don't like . Or fresh for that matter. :)

testing complete

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Gotta remove the asterisks. :)

So, this isn't quite another spoiler tag, but it can be used as one, so I'll mention it here: you can now collapse things into one line, and reveal them with a Show/Hide button, like this:


I've always liked the slightly atypical way we mark spoilers here, but it does have some downsides, like the inability to hide spoilery images, for example. So if you want to do that, or just prefer this, or just want to collapse things (like an unwieldy Table of Contents in a review thread, for example), you can do it like this:

[*collapse=Title Here]Hidden stuff here[/collapse*]

Thanks to Rhys for bugging me into doing this.

Thanks, I was just curious.

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Testing about bambi's mother spoiler


[*spoilers=Your Movie] she got eaten [*/spoilers]

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Oh damn. Didnt work. Sorry for spoiler.