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Should details tags work in comments?
In a post a <details> tag can be used to hide information until a user chooses to click on it, useful for spoilers or puzzle solutions.
For example, the following raw text:
<details>
<summary>
Click to see the answer
</summary>
The answer is "Ask why 5 times"
</details>
is rendered as:
Click to see the answer
The answer is "Ask why 5 times"Currently comments support some HTML, such as bold, italics and supercript. Would it be useful for comments to also support hidden information with the <details> tag?
Even if it didn't actively encourage misuse of the site, time spent on a feature like this would be far better used else …
6mo ago
Comments aren't for content. They are for working with the author to make a better post. Put another way, they are sup …
6mo ago
I can imagine the following uses for hidden `` sections in comment threads. Some of these uses will apply to some types …
6mo ago
I started to write a whole thing about how "this might make sense if each community could turn it on or off," and explai …
6mo ago
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I started to write a whole thing about how "this might make sense if each community could turn it on or off," and explaining the difference in my eyes.
However, my counter-example started out as a programming question-and-answer, and I realized that...
First, you often want to ask a technical question by loading information into it (logs, for example), but you don't want that mass of content to clutter the question to the point that nobody reads it.
Likewise, a programming answer especially might come in two forms, the "this is the thing that you need to fix to get your presented code running" answer and the "here's your code rewritten to not only fix your problem but head off some other potential issues.
Combine those cases with (in effect) spoiler warnings (presumably the originally envisioned use, when calling about puzzles) and content warnings when somebody needs to present information that some readers will want to skip, and details start to make a lot of sense across the board...assuming that implementing it - in a way that makes sense for users who aren't comfortable with "just mix Markdown and HTML - wouldn't take too much effort, of course.
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