Spoiler in Thunderbird?

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FFman
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Spoiler in Thunderbird?

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Is it possible to have a spoiler when composing a Thunderbird message?

E.g. the spoiler is hidden until clicked.
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Re: Spoiler in Thunderbird?

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It would seem that might depend on your skill in composing in HTML. What would be your purpose in doing that?
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Re: Spoiler in Thunderbird?

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The developers disabled javascript completely in message content. There is no option to enable javascript in message content.

More info
http://superuser.com/questions/814464
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Re: Spoiler in Thunderbird?

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Thanks morat.
DanRaisch wrote:It would seem that might depend on your skill in composing in HTML. What would be your purpose in doing that?
Very simple. I am sending a friend a puzzle and the answer if he wants to reveal it.
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Re: Spoiler in Thunderbird?

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Tell him you'll send the answer in the next message, and not to open it until ready. Could include SPOILER in the title of the 2nd message.
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Re: Spoiler in Thunderbird?

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Why not just put the puzzle in the message and the answer in an attachment so it's not visible when the message is first opened?
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Thanks for the replies.
It's no big deal.
I just wondered.
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Re: Spoiler in Thunderbird?

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Also,

You can't use a <head> section with styles.

You can't use an external stylesheet.

You can use inline styles, but that doesn't help you with the following trick.

Using css in html emails
http://css-tricks.com/using-css-in-html ... eal-story/

Show hide div without javascript (trick)
http://css-workshop.com/css-show-hide-d ... avascript/

Maybe use the input element, then view the source to see the hidden value.

Code: Select all

<input type="password" value="cowabunga">
HTML input tag
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_input.asp
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