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While the thread title may be a bit misleading, I couldn't think of any other way to word it.

Would it be possible to add a feature giving the current poster the ability to create a drop down section within his post, which can contain information (or hide potential spoilers without the temptation to scroll over the black text)?

This kind of feature could very useful in at least cleaning up many walls of what-have-you floating around here. For example if I were to have a GFX gallery I could post my info and then beneath this have a number of clickable drop down sections containing my works within. It could also be used for organizing competition winners, video categories or just all the media related to a particular "thing".

I do not know what kind of "know how" this needs or terror this idea could be to bring within the forum or if it would be possible even WITH grueling efforts and certainly don't think such a feature is something worth breaking backs/banks for. I do, however, believe it would be quite the useful tool.

To further clarify what I mean with a very shoddy example:


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I know what you're talking about :hmmm: It's like a spoiler tag, only you use it to keep things more organized and use up less space. I'll get a screenshot from another forum I know that has this.

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This kind of thing, right?
 
Yup. That is pretty much it. :wacky:

Would have been much easier doing that than splicing pictures together :rage:
 
Isn't there a simple, more appealing spoiler code that can be added to do this? I know I've seen it around at vb.org, but I haven't been there for a while.
 
Such as? The only thing that we have floating around here even similar to this is the black spoiler tags.
 
well I found an example.. I dn if it would work XD


HTML: 
<table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center">
<tr>
	<td>
<span style="font-size: 11px;">
<div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px">
<div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px">
<b>Spoiler:</b> {option} <input type="button" value="Show" style="width:45px;font-size:10px;margin:0px;padding:0px;" onClick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerText = ''; this.value = 'Hide'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerText = ''; this.value = 'Show'; }">
</div>
<p>
<div class="alt2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px; border: 1px inset; background-color: [URL=http://www.finalfantasyforums.net/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=FAFAFA]#FAFAFA[/URL] border: [URL=http://www.finalfantasyforums.net/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=D1D7DC]#D1D7DC[/URL] border-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px">
<div style="display: none;"><font color="black">
{param}
</font>
</div>
</p>
</div>
</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

but i do see what u mean... they use it on the dissidia forums

the code for the tech guys ;)
 
I agree that we would really need this on this site, but I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that Belazor will tell you that this is not supported by 3.8 ^_^

I personally would really love the spoiler tags, not only can you keep posts like Galleries much smaller too, but maybe extra text you want in your Sig space? It will be hidden with the tag but people can still view it if they want to. ♥
 
Six said:
I agree that we would really need this on this site, but I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that Belazor will tell you that this is not supported by 3.8 ^_^

I personally would really love the spoiler tags, not only can you keep posts like Galleries much smaller too, but maybe extra text you want in your Sig space? It will be hidden with the tag but people can still view it if they want to. ♥
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I can tell you for a fact that the Spoiler Tags are supported for 3.8 as they are even supported for earlier versions. :dave:

But I totally agree. Organization is the new cool :reptar:
 
Six said:
I agree that we would really need this on this site, but I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that Belazor will tell you that this is not supported by 3.8 ^_^
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He says a lot of things aren't supported on 3.8 when I've seen a lot of the things on other 3.8 and lower forums :hmph: Although the screenshots I posted are from a 4.x site, that was only because I happened to have the page bookmarked and was too lazy to look through many forums to find a page that used them.
 
Belazor

we should @ him to ask. :hmmm: cuz honestly, this would HELP so much with many many things. And I'm glad someone else brought this up finally :gonk:
 
Does vb have any alternative to use ASP? or ASP.net? Couldn't we offer a C#/vb.net solution to the whole thing for dynamic combo box? HTML that was provided from the user above is more for static text which wouldn't be quite the thing I would want to reduce the forum too.

I mean the HTML that encapsulates is fine, but maybe we could use Jquery (java) or C#/vb.net to reference a database field in order for the user to have an interactive combo box. Though that just means more database tables to add. Not sure how much space the DBT boys are willing to give up.

Bottom line is Belazor and Decado are the only two individuals that can add additional functionality to the website as a whole. If they say yes.. well then yes, but we are the guinea pig to their code as a whole. He needs to respond. If he says, sorry this can not be done, then sorry Jeff.

If there was an easy Vb plugin to do all this, it would be a lot better than coding the alternative.
 
doing some googling for how to do it to help you :grin: here more simple code :P

Code: 
<div style="margin: 5px;">
<div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">
<b>Spoiler!</b> <input value="Show" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 45px; font-size: 10px;" onclick="if(this.parentNode.parentNode.getElements ByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != 'inline'){ this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('d iv')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'inline'; this.innerText = ''; this.value = 'Hide'; }else{ this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('d iv')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerText = ''; this.value='Show'; }" type="button">
</div>
<div class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ; padding: 6px;">
<div class="spoiler" style="display: none;"></div>
</div>
</div>
 
Has this even been seen/looked over by the techies yet? :hmmm: Been posted for a while, and still no word, while the majority is saying yay for this feature. :gasp:
 
Omg thank you.... Sooo getting rep.. You just do that with the spoiler tag XD
 
:grin: You're welcome, guys. ♥

Hahah, thanks Belz.

Took you fucking long enough. :hmph:
 
Quit yer whinin, woman :rage:
 
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