How to present spoilers :-)

[tilly]

Actually HTML has a wonderful way to do spoilers, an example is below. Highlight it if you actually need an explanation of the trick.

Spoiler

The trick is that you write a table with the font and the background color the same. When someone highlight's it they can read the spoiler, but otherwise they cannot. In this case I did it like this: <table><tr><td bgcolor=#000000><font color=#000000> put text here and then </font><td></tr></table> Unfortunately links show through because the rules for the HTML here don't include (that I saw at least) a way to control the color of an HREF. Which is why the link is down there and not in here. :-)

Wish I could claim it was my idea, but one of the folks at IWETHEY (namely CRConrad) came up with it.

[merlyn]

<table><tr><td bgcolor=#000000><font color=#000000> 
put text here and then 
</font><td></tr></table>

If you're gonna do that, at least make it legal HTML by putting the needed quotes around the attributes!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[puck]

You can solve the problem with the colour of the hyperlinks by using Cascading Style Sheets.

I've changed the colours on my homepage and also removed the underline from the links.

Update: Putting underlines for links is sooo ugly! :)

Cheers!

[crazyinsomniac]

I am the ultimate spoiler

The trick for including links of different color, aside from changing body attributes is to do the following: <a href="/index.pl?node_id=10277"> <font color="#000000"> slick </FONT> </a> I'm a slick one ain't i?

 
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Disclaimer: Don't blame. It came from inside the void
perl -e "$q=$_;map({chr unpack qq;H*;,$_}split(q;;,q*H*));print;$q/$q;"

[demerphq]

Just so folks know should they stumble on this node there is now support for <spoiler> tags in PM. They can be configured to render just like this too. :-) IOW, please DONT follow the advice here from tilly, just use the correct tags.

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