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How do you hide lengthy blocks of text?

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How do you hide lengthy blocks of text?
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How do you hide lengthy blocks of text?
January 26, 2016 at 2:02 pm (This post was last modified: January 26, 2016 at 2:03 pm by God of Mr. Hanky.)
I feel a bit stupid for having to ask this when it seems every idiot here has it figured out, but I have tried all the editing options, searched the forum, and googled how to hide text too of course. My old friend the slash and star enclosure isn't getting me results either - something which others have and I don't seem to are a means of producing a button to display what some may be interested in, but most would avoid having to scroll through, and I would like very much to be able to do that too. So what is it that I'm missing (or overlooked)?
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RE: How do you hide lengthy blocks of text?
January 26, 2016 at 2:09 pm (This post was last modified: January 26, 2016 at 2:11 pm by ApeNotKillApe.)
Type [/hide] at end of text and [hide] at beginning of text.
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RE: How do you hide lengthy blocks of text?
January 26, 2016 at 2:12 pm (This post was last modified: January 26, 2016 at 2:12 pm by Excited Penguin.)
[ hide ]hide[ / hide ] without the spaces will show you this:


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RE: How do you hide lengthy blocks of text?
January 26, 2016 at 2:33 pm
(January 26, 2016 at 2:09 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Type [/hide] at end of text and [hide] at beginning of text.

Thanks! Guess sometimes it's the answer which appears much too obvious!
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RE: How do you hide lengthy blocks of text?
January 26, 2016 at 2:41 pm
(January 26, 2016 at 2:12 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: [ hide ]hide[ / hide ] without the spaces will show you this:



Thanks!

How would you nest hidden text (i.e. a big, fat wall of text which includes other blocks of hidden text)? I've had difficulty making an attempt at this perform. I did make sure I had my quote bubble hierarchy correct for the enclosing

commands, and still this was ignored by the preview system.
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RE: How do you hide lengthy blocks of text?
January 26, 2016 at 2:52 pm
Lighter fluid and brass knuckles?
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RE: How do you hide lengthy blocks of text?
January 26, 2016 at 3:58 pm
Ugh, that didn't come out as I intended! When I don't want it to hide text the brackets do that, when I do need it to...
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RE: How do you hide lengthy blocks of text?
January 26, 2016 at 5:04 pm
Besides the hide tag, you can also use the spoiler tag. It behaves a lot like the hide tag, but can be inserted inside a hide tag (or vice-versa).
You can't nest them for more than one level each, so two levels in total.
Example:

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RE: How do you hide lengthy blocks of text?
January 26, 2016 at 5:39 pm
(January 26, 2016 at 5:04 pm)!!Tpocaracas Wrote: Besides the hide tag, you can also use the spoiler tag. It behaves a lot like the hide tag, but can be inserted inside a hide tag (or vice-versa).
You can't nest them for more than one level each, so two levels in total.
Example:


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