Guild Wars 2

Did anyone else notice that the [spoiler] function on the forum is really bunky?

I mean, sometimes it’s a black bar that shows the text by hovering over, and sometimes it’s a spoiler box that needs to be clicked on. I find this very peculiar because I haven’t yet figured out what’s different in the two forms. they all look identically the same, spacing by enters and such doesn’t seem to be a the controlling factor.. it almost seems random.

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As you can see these all became click on versions, but sometimes these exact same writings become hover-overs

The info on formatting options doesn’t explain this very well, but spoiler tags have two different formats, which I think are for different situations.

If you just want to hide a short piece of text, like one key word in a sentence you put the spoiler tags (and the text) in-line and it blacks it out.

If you want to hide something big, like a plot summary or a block of technical info that may not be of interest to most people reading your post you put a blank link above and below the spoiler tag.

There’s another option too:

You can do it with in-line spoilers toobut it looks a mess. I don’t think that’s as useful.

Maybe because I’m on an iPad, but your examples look the same to me.

Maybe the reason is the need to have an empty line before and after the spoiler for it to work? Like this spoiler becomes this

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Depending on the spaces.

I don’t see any difference between your two.

So the first is within a sentence like so

also a few occasions where the spoiler doesn’t work altogether

There are two types of spoilers, in-line spoilers which occur when you mark some words in a line of text as a spoiler like this.

A block spoiler appears when there’s an empty line (and no text) immediately before the spoiler tag.