Spoiler tag BBCode built in? (Page 1 of 2)

If you want such a thing to work with Internet Explorer just using css (no javascript) then the spoiler tag will have to be an empty <a> tag as nothing else recognises :hover e.g <a class="spoiler" href="#">Some spoiler text</a>. Maybe somebody can work out how to put that in parser.php.

The stylesheet should then be something like this
a.spoiler:link, a.spoiler:visited {background-color: #000; color: #000}
a.spoiler:hover {color: #fff}

If you wanted the spoiler text to display as a block rather than inline just add
a.spoiler {display:block}

Is this something like you had in mind
http://www.post21.co.uk/pun12/viewtopic.php?pid=7#p7

Its just a cheap trick using an empty link but it does have a side affect, if you click on the text you end up back at the top of the page

This is another one of those things that is really easy in other browsers because you can use :hover on any tag.

This is EXACTLY what I was thinking of.  How did you implement this?  This is done via BBcode, correct?  Can I get some instruction on how to get this going on my site?  Thanks in advance.

Edit:  I posted on the test forum over there.  I was thinking of using bbcode tags to make it all happen.  Also, do these work inline?  If so, that'd be great.  Thanks for all your efforts here.

why not make is like in some vbulletin boards, to see the spoiler one have to select the text...instead of hoovering over it (hoover may also be done accidently, selecting is harder to do accidently)

(also, making a link is IMHO just a hack, just using something to do something it's not supposed to do .... i.e. such things are IMHO most likely to be things that will freak out at a later date, when new softwares/revisions come)

http://forum.rscnet.org/ use select on their [spoiler][/spoiler] tag

I'm using it on my forum : http://ckkoshi.free.fr/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=56
Just using basic css :hover, for msie, select the text display it.

In testing, it seems to break if I put a carriage return or two in.  Odd that.  Does punbb handle carriage returns as < p > tags or something similar that would break the span?

Just a thought about the empty <a> - If you set the cursor to default, people will be less likely to actually click the text, no?

Could this spoiler tag be implemented in a new version of PunBB, instead of a mod? I think it's useful for many forums, and it doesn't really decrease the performance of PunBB, I think.

I'm using this code at my forums now:

// After $b[] = '[ code]$1[/ code]'."\n"; (line 78)

$a[] = '#\[spoiler\]\s*#i'; $a[] = '#\s*\[/spoiler\]#i'; $b[] = '[spoiler]'; $b[] = '[/spoiler]';

// After '<span style="color: $1">$2</span>'); (line 332)

$text = str_replace('[spoiler]', '</p><div class="codebox incqbox spoiler"><h4>Spoiler <span style="font-weight:normal">(click the black bar to read the text)</span></h4><p style="background:black;color:black" onclick="this.style.color=(this.style.color==\'black\'?\'white\':\'black\')">', $text);
$text = preg_replace('#\[\/spoiler\]\s*#', '</p></div><p>', $text);

It still isn't ideal, but it works when using multiple paragraphs. It doesn't work well when you use a link or an image.

Okay, but the [ code]-tags don't serve any purpose at both of my non-technical forums. I think there are many forums where people talk about books, movies, tv series and computer games. Those discussions often contain spoilers.

there's one difference, the code tag can be used for more than just code ... I'm using it to format some tables with data in columns (for F1, practise sessions and times and such) ... as it's fixed with it's easier to read data out of it, othervise one would probably need to attach images or something to show data in table format ...