How to create spoilers in Discourse?

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The discussion is about creating spoilers in Discourse. mreach asked if it’s possible to create collapsable spoilers by default or if a plugin is required. lucasbasquerotto replied that spoilers can be created using [spoiler]content[/spoiler] or [details="some spoiler"]content[/details]. pfaffman pointed out the existence of a search function and linked to a relevant topic on meta.discourse.org. Initially, mreach reported that the method wasn’t working in their instance, but after restarting the app and trying again, they were able to successfully create a spoiler.

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Is it possible to create collapsable spoilers in Discourse by default or is a plugin required?

2

Do you mean… like this?

If you want the above, you can use:

[spoiler]the spoiler comes here[/spoiler]

If you want specifficaly collapsable spoilers (instead of blur spoilers), you could do this:

some spoiler

spoiler content here

[details="some spoiler"]
spoiler content here
[/details]

You can achieve those options either by writting them just as I demonstrated above, or by clicking in the gear icon at the right of the other editor options above the text area in which you write stuff.

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There is a search function. This is the first entry for spoiler. Discourse Spoiler Alert

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Hmm, yeah… thanks @lucasbasquerotto and @pfaffman - I did do a search first and did find that, however it is not working in our instance of Discourse… I’ll try going back to the proverbial troubleshooting drawing board here and try to figure out WHY it’s not working by default… :weary_face:

EDIT: I really don’t know what happened or why this happened, but I restarted the app instance and tried it on a fresh new post and it worked this time. Confusing, but it seems to work now.