ok i know how to either highlight to read them or click the little button to show them, but i have no idea how to hide them! i wanted to put a spoiler in one of my post, but i didnt know how!

just use the spoiler tags as follows:

put the word [spoiler] in front, and
put the word [/spoiler] after.

for example:
[spoiler]mary had a little lamb.[/spoiler]

to do this automatically, highlight what you want hidden and press the S button with the diagonal line through it. that is the spoiler auto-tagger.

like this? spoiler blah blah spoiler lol see if that works

nope it didnt! thank goodness i didnt say a real spoiler!

If you are replying in an existing thread, click the REPLY button. When you do that, there are a whole bunch of formatting buttons. One of the buttons towards the end is an "S" with a "/" through it. That is the SPOILER button. When you click it, it will put 2 tags in your text.

Anything in the middle of those 2 tags will be hidden.

If you have already typed something and later decide to hide it in spoiler tags, just hilight the whole text and then press the button. It will put the tags at the beginning and the end

thanks so much!