Quote from: actmyname on Today at 06:14:34 AM

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on Today at 06:08:10 AM

You are limited as to how much information you can keep in the "spoiler" as the display box will only be so wide.

Correct. Though I'm not sure what good it would do to contain large fields of text in a spoiler box. You're not exactly hiding detailed national secrets. Hopefully whoever is structuring the reply will make hidden text a reasonable length.

Someone could be wanting to temporarily hide a list or multiple steps of logic that requires multiple lines. Neither of these is compatible with the abbr tag.

Quote from: actmyname on Today at 06:14:34 AM

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on Today at 06:08:10 AM

Also, if someone is not sure what you are doing, they may spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out what is "behind" the text "█████" without success, and never actually see the spoiler text.

Replaceable with any alternative text, like [hover] or [spoiler]. I figured the conventional "black box spoiler" was clear enough but again, audience targeting is at the discretion of the post-bearer.

My initial assumption was that you are doing something similar to what o_e_l_e_o did above. If you use those black boxes, some readers may not realize you are in fact using black boxes, and that the underlying text is found elsewhere.

I have seen spoiler tags in other forums such that a spoiler tag is displayed by the forum, and a user to click a button to see (and copy) the hidden text. When the hidden text is not displayed, the reader does not know if the hidden text is 1 line or 100. Once the hidden text is displayed, the viewer can read the hidden text without having to keep their mouse in a static location.