Puzzlers - you can use the "Hide" tag

MathsIsFun · 2005-07-31 19:47:59

We have a "Hide" tag, which lets you enter your answer but people have to click on a button to see it. This lets other people have a go without seeing your answer. It doesn't really hide it, but does remove it by one click.

You use it like this (use [] not {} ):

My answer {hide=is this}42 !{/hide}

My answer

MathsIsFun · 2005-08-07 10:45:46

Not a bug ... just lack of a feature

I have not BBCode'd it ... I just went for straight text.

But I can put that on my list of features to add if you like ...

John E. Franklin · 2005-09-02 17:50:36

Hey, this is really neat! Good idea.

MathsIsFun · 2005-09-02 18:43:03

kylekatarn wrote:

"If the rest of the forum supports BBcode, why don't hide tags?"

Quite right, but not as simple as one would imagine. However I am close to a solution.

So, if all hide tags suddenly look silly - that'll be me!

MathsIsFun · 2005-09-02 22:07:21

OK, you can now use bbcode in "hide" tags - please tell me how you get on.

(But don't use bbcode on the button text, I can't get that to work because of html limitations, hence the smiley on this button isn't rendered, but it works on the message page )

justlookingforthemoment · 2005-09-02 23:34:22

MathsIsFun · 2005-09-03 00:16:12

justlookingforthemoment · 2005-09-05 19:31:19

Now that all the buttons work, mathsy's signature button doesn't seem to be...

It displays the tags and all the writing instead.

justlookingforthemoment · 2005-09-28 12:23:49

Why do all the posts with hide tags in them have things like this

Mathsyperson justlooking kylekatarn MathsIsFun
(495==641) (495==495) (495==895) (495==2)

above them?

We all seem to have our own special number! Have they always been there or is it a new improvement...?

MathsIsFun · 2005-09-28 22:27:06

Interesting ... I will take a look at that!

darthradius · 2005-12-01 05:51:13

Testing..testing......one..two......one..two.......

The shortest math joke...

Jai Ganesh · 2005-12-02 20:54:36

Yes, the shortest......
and do you know the worst tongue twister in English language?
'The sixth sick Sheik's sixt sheep's sick.'
I ain't sure 'bout that!

Jai Ganesh · 2005-12-02 20:56:16

And one of the shortest pangrams?
'Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs'.

mathsyperson · 2005-12-02 22:04:23

The shortest tongue twister is actually 'sixish'. It only works if you trying saying it lots of times though. Plus, it's probably not a real word. At least it's very short.

irspow · 2005-12-08 14:04:23

krassi_holmz · 2005-12-11 01:24:06

mathsyperson · 2005-12-22 01:56:12

I was messing around with some BBCode and found this (highlight the post):

A new way to hide stuff!
Of course, that only works if you assume that everyone uses SleekBlue, but still, it makes a change from hide tags.

Ricky · 2006-01-02 08:35:47

I didn't believe you till I tried it, and you're right, it doesn't work in different styles. It's a fairly simple task to get the style the person is viewing, then change the font to the background color of the post. Weird.

justlookingforthemoment · 2006-01-02 12:30:06

I think I'm using oxygen. The text is almost the right colour, and blends in especially well if I tilt my screen down.

krassi_holmz · 2006-01-02 12:43:27

The exact colour is:
Red:204
Green:204
Blue:221

krassi_holmz · 2006-01-02 12:46:10

Which is hexademical #CCCCDD

Last edited by krassi_holmz (2006-01-02 12:46:32)

krassi_holmz · 2006-01-02 12:48:11

Can we hide other things?

No , we can't.
Bolded hided

n
----
\ n(n+1)
| i = ---------
/ 2
----
i=1

← → ↔ ↤ ↦ ↘ ↗ ↑ ↓ ↕ ⇄ ⇐ ⇒ ⇔ ⇑ ⇓ ⇀ ⇌ ⋯ ⋮ ⋰ ⋱ ─ │ ︶︵︸︷

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MathsIsFun · 2006-01-02 17:13:35

And I actually looked at doing that when I developed the original hide tag.

It *may* be possible to match the user's style color, but that is in a stylesheet, so not available automatically (I would have to hard-code the colors, making upgrades complicated)

Why I use a separate page for the hide tag is so that I can (in a future upgrade) actually block them until the puzzlemaster allows.

krassi_holmz · 2006-01-03 00:30:59

Can you?
Block this:

MathsIsFun · 2006-01-03 11:05:17

I can't block it yet!

Only because I haven't figured out a good "trigger" for blocking or not.

I thought that the original author of the topic could include a keyword in the title, such as "Open Puzzle" or " - Current", and that would let my software know to disable all hide tags for that topic.

Suggestions welcome.

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