hiding text in preview

[Crazydog]

i figured out how to hide text in the rolloever preview of a thread on the hompage. just type like this: [you cant see this in the preview]. Put it in brackets and it cant be seen.. why? I dont know... lol

[Sally Kat]

Has something to do with the codes, those square brackets are used usually with something in them like [img], maybe they tell the command to not show up in the displayed page.

[Kitty Litter]

Those are called HTML tags... The interpreter is expecting a valid command to be displayed there. However, when the HTML page loads for real (opening the link), it fails to interpret a valid command so it gets displayed as normal text.


[img]http://img2.**************/img2/7654/Pied-Cog-Signature.gif[/img]

[Greebo]

Originally Posted by Kitty Litter

Those are called HTML tags... The interpreter is expecting a valid command to be displayed there. However, when the HTML page loads for real (opening the link), it fails to interpret a valid command so it gets displayed as normal text.


[img]http://img2.**************/img2/7654/Pied-Cog-Signature.gif[/img]

Well, close - except HTML tags are done with angle brackets (< and >) -- the square brackets are really VB code being translated to HTML code by the VB engine.

[Loosy Goosy]

Yea it looks like the VB engine disallows bracketed text (vbcode) from being
displayed in the alt-text. That's pretty cool but if you ever want to use it for
whatever reason, you won't be able to use vbcode formatting in your OP

[qwascrows]

I was just wondering, what is an OP?

[Sally Kat]

Originally Posted by qwascrows

I was just wondering, what is an OP?

OP means 'Origional Post'.
I wondered for a bit too when I first saw it.