[hide][/hide] tags don't work

On our forum the [hide][/hide] tags don't seem to work. All they do is put the text in a coloured box but leave it visible.

Can you post a screenshot of what appears?
Have you enabled bbcode on profile as well as admin panel?

If you have replied in the topic then it will become visible for you.
The content inside hide tags in only hidden to those who have not replies in the topic.

Ok, so that's not the behaviour I was expecting. On other forums I have used (not forumotion) the hide tags allow you to, well, hide something which is revealed by clicking on the 'click to reveal' link which appears in its place.

Is it possible to achieve this behaviour?

Is it the spoiler tag your after?

Spoiler:

Code:

[spoiler]Text to hide[/spoiler]

[quote="nelsaidi2"]Is it the spoiler tag your after?

[spoiler]Some text[/spoiler]

[code][spoiler]Text to hide[/spoiler][/code][/quote]

Huzzah! That's the one! Thanks for that! Is it possible to give the tag a label? e.g. [spoiler=Don't look now!]some text[/spoiler]

Nopes not possible.

Ok, thanks. But I'm sure our lot will be pleased just knowing there is a working hide tag. I predict lots of happy faces.

Heres a little trick for you

a while ago for fun on my forum myself and the staff would leave hidden messages for the members by simply adding the message to different area's of the forum and using the color code to make the font effectively invisible until you highlight it

Obviously you don't know where the text is because you cant see it

Try highlighting underneath this text

This is just an example of some forum trickery


regards







Craig

Dose it do a purple or blueish font color that happens to me ill chek what happens here

well the good thing about the code is you can add any colour you want, here is the code and a link to hex codes to enable the exact colour you need

[color=#dceaf5]This is just an example of some forum trickery[/color]

http://html-color-codes.com/

regards







Craig

eattheword wrote:Is it possible to give the tag a label? e.g.

Don't look now!:

Do you have HTML enabled on your forum? If you do, then yes, you can add anything you want to a spoiler label (or a code label for that matter). You just have to create the spoiler box manually:

Code:

<dl class="codebox" style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="this.getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display=((this.getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display=='none')?'':'none');"><dt>spoiler label</dt><dd><div style="display:none;">spoiler text</div></dd></dl>

The above is for phpBB3. For Invision, the only change would be (class="spoiler") instead of (class="codebox").

Is there a phbBB2 version? Also, where do we need to put the HTML code?

Dark Takua wrote:This is what comes up when you do the hide tags

Yes, that was the point of the original post. I learnt that

Spoiler:

tags are what I needed. What I'm looking for now is a way to change the behaviour of those spoiler tags so that users can add a label. The solution above seems to require pasting in the HTML code into each post. Is there a way of assigning this HTML functionality to the tag itself, or to a button?

To do this, HTML must be allowed in posts.
This is the spoiler code...

Code:

<dl class="codebox" style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="this.getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display=((this.getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display=='none')?'':'none');">
<dt>Ankillien Posts:</dt>
<dd>
<div>This is the content inside thw spoiler.</div>
</dd>
</dl>

Notice the Ankillien Posts: inside <dt>. That will change the label.
The content goes inside <div> tags.

ok, so the person has to insert the DHTML code into the post by hand. Understood.

Thanks. :-)

Yes, they have to use this code.