Possible Duplicate:
Add markdown support for hidden-until-you-click text (aka spoilers)
Possible Duplicate:
Implement the <spoiler> tag
[Apparently I committed some sort of grave sin in *gasp* discussing a potential feature for a proposed StackExchange site in the discussion zone for StackExchange site proposals. Was brusquely told to do it here instead. Anyhoo...]
Proposal: Movies
On IMDB, they cover spoilers as shown in the image below, and it reveals the text when you put your mouse cursor over it. Adding an easy way to do this in markdown would be a great feature for this site.
(Excerpt from the description of violence and gore in The Sixth Sense in case you were wondering.)
You can kind of do this already for an entire paragraph with ">!" like this:
Boo!
However this is a) not obvious to the reader, whereas the above is, and b) is block level only. You can't hide a sentence within a paragraph for instance.
Coda
As discussed in the comments, this was closed as the >! mark-up facilitates hidden text. I'll also note that the way IMDB does it and the way SE does it are with very similar CSS properties, so if we really wanted the hidden text covered with a red spoiler warning for a specific site, instead of just being invisible, it would be a very simple CSS tweak.
status-declined
) I personally think that The Team should reconsider their decision though with all of these new SE sites where spoilers can exist in questions. In the mean time, just tag any questions that contain spoilers with aspoiler
tag. That's what gaming.se is doing<spoiler>
. Like Jeff explained: We really don't want to be in the business of making up new HTML tags [...] Note that the content is not only used on the SE websites, but the API, data dumps etcetera might be used by others too. (Note that Add markdown support for hidden-until-you-click text (aka spoilers) is[status-completed]
.)