I made this custom bbcode called HIDE to hide part of your post. The usage goes like this:



Here is an example of above bbcode. Please use your forum login name as the option. This will make the code work smoothly with multiple usage.
[hide=buffalohelp]Just insert what you want to hide.[/hide]

If you want to use more than one HIDE code in a single post, you MUST use it like this:

This will show as
[hide=buffalohelp1]Insert the hidden text one.[/hide]
[hide=buffalohelp2]Insert the hidden text two.[/hide]

You'll note that yourname1 and yourname2 were used. If you were to use the same option field with the same variable, only one will open and the other will not. And the reason I've made it to use your forum name is to differentiate among all HIDE codes in a topic per page. This is crucial.

If you do not use distinguishable option values this is what will happen:

This will show as
[hide=name]Inserting code[/hide]
[hide=name]Inserting second code[/hide]

As you can see, the second hide code does not show and it triggers the first one.

For the full list of available BBcodes for Trap17 board, please visit http://www.trap17.com/forums/index.php?act...mp;type=bbcodes

A word of caution: Words within the HIDE bbcode will still earn you hosting credits. Members using HIDE to post and paste articles to gain hosting credits against Trap17 forum rules will be warned immediately without exception. The earned hosting credits will also be reversed.

Thanks guys and enjoy using

PS there's a possibility that your browser security can block the proper function of this code. When you see a security block message "blocked active content" either allow Trap17 as your trusted site or allow this script to run. That is up to you.

This feature is really interesting, it might be useful with large articles or tutorials, and a person can write a summary and "click here to show" the rest or something.

Hey trap17 now has a spoiler (they are called spoilers, right ). Better use would be something like this:

Ya now we can hide the part of who dies and what not or whatever if people don't want to know. People can use the hide for quotes and what not as well like talk about an article and say to view the article go here http://articlelink.com or just have it in quotes.

[hide=Plenoptic][/hide]

So I guess BBCodes are just like other scripts made into something simpler? Anyway that's cool, good job Buffalo.

This post has been edited by Plenoptic: Aug 15 2006, 10:16 AM

Great thanks for this, now we can talk about LOST!

Well nice work Buffalo, I prefer the other modification that shows the image saying there is hidden content in the post, but otherwise looks nice and I can see where is might come in handy.

So what does this do? What is it for? I am not reallyunderstanding what it does exactly? So if someone could just explain to me what this does. I know that is hides text but why would we want to do that???!?!?

Typo there are many reasons why people would use this. You could have a riddle and hide the answer and after someone guesses they can click to show the answer, or like I said before instead of showing a huge article they can hide it there and people can click if they want to read it (of course still in quotes) or if there is a spoiler to a book that would give it away people can hide it from those who just want to read the other information or they could use it for some content that younger users should not read like Albus' Joke that you replied to earlier.

Wow this is perfect for so many things. I will have to use this. You should put the HIDE tags in the main reply box next to to the Quote and Code buttons. I think people would use this more too.