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Reading Spoilers - DHBirr - 07-13-2012
Query: How in Arioch's name do you make a hidden spoiler show up so you can read it? I've been reduced to copying the "blank" area and then pasting it into a random document on my computer, which is a ridiculously cumbersome procedure. If there's instructions for this somewhere on the Forums, I wasn't able to figure out the right place to look.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
- Bob Schroeck - 07-13-2012
If you're allowing scripting, you should just be able to click the "[+]" that follows the word "spoiler".
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Sweno - 07-13-2012
If you are referring to the "spoiler [+]" it's a chunk of javascript. so just click the plus and it should expand.
If you are running noscript or something similar, then I have no clue (without allowing yuku.com scripting).
ETA: actually looking at the page with all scripting turned off, it appears that the a lack of javascript defaults the text to visible. So you get the spoiled content directly under the spoiler tag.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
- Ankhani - 07-13-2012
Some people also change font color to white or use a black highlight to hide text. If that's the case, you just need to highlight the text and it'll show up.
White text ==> text text
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
- DHBirr - 07-13-2012
I'm not seeing "spoiler [+]" -- until I do the Copy/Paste. Here on Yuku, I just see a blank line or three, in the middle of a paragraph as like as not, which is what clues me in to it being a spoiler and not just the end of the paragraph. Highlighting the blank space doesn't show up anything. And I have no clue how to allow or dis-allow scripting.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
- Sweno - 07-13-2012
hmm, what browser are you using?
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
- DHBirr - 07-13-2012
Internet Explorer. 8, I think -- I'm fairly sure 9 wasn't part of any updates I've received.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
- Sweno - 07-14-2012
hmm, I'm running win7 and Microsoft doesn't offer a version of IE8 for windows 7. So I can't do some independent testing.
Anyone on xp willing to do some quick sanity checks to see if it's a IE bug or something more specific to DHBirr's setup?
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
- robkelk - 07-14-2012
(dusts off IE)
"Help | About Internet Explorer" says I have version 8.0.6001.18702
The spoilers work the same way they do in SeaMonkey.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- DHBirr - 07-15-2012
Sounds like it's something wrong with my computer, then. That's about par for the course. I've taken some financial hits in the last six months, so I was trying to hold off a bit longer on buying a new one, but it's nearly five years old, and I get the impression that's elderly for computers.
Thanks for the help, everyone.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
- robkelk - 07-15-2012
Five years is elderly for computers. At the office, that's long past rust-out.
(Granted, I'm typing this message on an eight-year-old PC... but I know it's almost completely dead.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- DHBirr - 07-15-2012
Yes, well, I'd never heard that explicitly stated before by anyone who wasn't trying to sell me a machine. And my previous computer still worked (better than my current one, in fact, albeit slow) after six years.
Whatever; thanks again.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
- Morganite - 07-16-2012
Personally, I'm of the "use it until it stops working" school, so that seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Although with something like this, the first thing I'd suggest is just trying a different web browser.
(Okay, technically it's "Why aren't you using Firefox?", but trying something other than what you're using still seems like a good plan.)
-Morgan.
- robkelk - 07-16-2012
DHBirr Wrote:Yes, well, I'd never heard that explicitly stated before by anyone who wasn't trying to sell me a machine. And my previous computer still worked (better than my current one, in fact, albeit slow) after six years.To be fair, we're in the business of supplying computing services - we have to stay close to (but not directly on) the leading edge of the tech wave...
Whatever; thanks again.
At home, it's a different matter.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- NifT - 07-16-2012
My last computer lasted me eight years, and the only reason I replaced it was that it crashed spectacularly because of a series of viruses (more specifically, I screwed up spectacularly when removing them). I figured, if I was gonna spend time reinstalling everything, might as well do it on (semi-)new hardware.