Suggestion: Spoiler tags

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It'd make it a lot easier to talk about movies and books without having to worry about spoiling it for others. Something like this.

[spoiler]To Serve Man... It's a cook book![/spoiler]

And have it change the text to black-on-black with a mouseover color of white-on-black, so the reader can simply point the cursor at the spoiler text to read it. Sound good? Hm?

I'd rather the word "spoiler" was in the subject line, then any of us that had seen/read the whatever, could discuss it freely and anyone who didn't want to know the plot twist could avoid the entire thread, instead of being stuffed up by someone who forgets to use the tags.

Plus colouring the text to match the backround doesn't work reliably either - in case you hadn't noticed, the background changes from blue to green for alternate posts.

edit: pardon my extra short memory and colour blindness.

That's not what I was suggesting, though. What I was suggesting was black-on-black text. Black-on-black text is unreadable no matter what the background color of the frame is; it appears as just a solid black block. On mouseover (meaning when the cursor is pointed at the text, not when highlighted), the text turns white on the black background and becomes readable. Copy and paste the following into an HTML file to see what I mean.

<span onmouseover="this.style.color='#FFF';" onmouseout="this.style.color='#000'" style="color:#000;background:#000">It's a cookbook!</span>

so we'd have to get a bb code made up for that or get html turned back on to post it in the forum?

I've got my account options set to allow html but here in my post a reply box it's turned off and doesn't work. And clicking on "OFF" doesn't toggle it back on.

Is that a problem? It doesn't seem like it'd be too difficult to implement.

I saw one on another forum, where the text inside the spoiler tag was red on red, when highlighted it turned to white on blue.

In fact googling it brings up a heap of coding options, it's quite a common mod, IMO it should be included with bold and italic on every board.

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