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2014-04-02, 01:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2012
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Issue with Spoilers (possibly isolated to PM's)
In my PM's, I have conversations where I spoiler older content so as to keep the previous messages within the PM, but not take up a bunch of room in the actual PM. I just went to review such a PM where there were multiple spoilers within it, and the area the text was able to fill got less and less until it actually was only 1 letter of a word per row, and virtually unreadable. Basically, the forum isn't giving as much room to spoilered material, I think because the quote bubbles take up more space. As this is in the PM area, its even smaller due to the control panel for the PM's.
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2014-04-02, 02:16 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Feb 2012
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- Germany
Re: Issue with Spoilers (possibly isolated to PM's)
I don't think there is any way around having some issues after a certain depth. Since each spoiler/quote reduces the available width some problems will happen after a certain amount (though it is interesting that the Nested Spoiler alone starts to just convert spoiler tags to normal text - so some depth "restriction" is at work).
The only workaround would possible to check for a certain depth level and warn while posting (or even prevent posting like character count), or to redesign the spoiler/quote tags that they don't use (less) extra width. (And I think that is what you want to propose?) But honestly I don't think that would be worth the work (if it is really doable anyway). [But I wouldn't mind, I liked the old quote boxes more. But I think if it would be doable to get something more like the old ones, we would have them.]
So the only thing you can do to stop awkward behavior is by limiting yourself in regards to depth of spoilers/quotes. (If you haven't done so, you can hide the side panel to have more space, making the issue less severe.)
Just so that anyone can't complain after wasting time: there is nothing interesting hidden in those spoiler tags. (Unless you find more spoiler/quote tags interesting)
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