How to present spoilers :-)

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>
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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.

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(crazyinsomniac) Re: How to present spoilers :-)
by crazyinsomniac (Prior) on Feb 21, 2001 at 08:22 UTC

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>
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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;"

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RE: How to present spoilers :-)
by merlyn (Sage) on Oct 26, 2000 at 07:56 UTC

<table><tr><td bgcolor=#000000><font color=#000000> 
put text here and then 
</font><td></tr></table>
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-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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RE: How to present spoilers :-)
by puck (Scribe) on Oct 26, 2000 at 08:46 UTC

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!

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Re: How to present spoilers :-)
by demerphq (Chancellor) on May 18, 2005 at 14:17 UTC

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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$world=~s/war/peace/g

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