The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

This post is about "blockquote" and "spoiler" tags.

This is the second lesson on "markup", which are the codes that let you format your text. You need to be familiar with "Basic Markup" (click here) before you read these instructions.

Blockquote
There are many more formatting tools available, but the Goodreads platform uses only a few. I think one of the most useful is "blockquote": <blockquote>...</blockquote>

Here is a piece of text which you might recognize: Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in a village near the forest. Whenever she went out, the little girl wore a red riding cloak, so everyone in the village called her Little Red Riding Hood.

Blockquote allows you to insert a quotation or text so that it is separated from the paragraph, like this:

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in a village near the forest. Whenever she went out, the little girl wore a red riding cloak, so everyone in the village called her Little Red Riding Hood.

Spoilers
Another tool which I find essential is the "spoiler" tag, which works in exactly the same way as all the other markup tags: {spoiler}...{/spoiler}
(For some reason the platform won't let me insert the "dummy" < and > signs here, so make sure you don't use { and }.)

You can use this tool to hide a certain piece of information and you can use more than one spoiler tag: the first one to say that the killer was (view spoiler)[Professor Plum (hide spoiler)] and the second to say that the victim (view spoiler)[was killed with the Candlestick in the Conservatory (hide spoiler)].

If there is something else you would like to learn,
just leave a comment in the "Request List" thread:
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Text in a pre element is displayed in a fixed-width
font, and it preserves both spaces and
line breaks

thanks Almeta... I changed my mind and decided not to talk about that one*, but since you have explained it so well (and better than I could):

<pre>...</pre>

You can see the results above in message #2.

* because in the Goodreads list it is called "indent text", but it isn't really and I thought it was confusing.

Hayes wrote: "thanks Almeta... I changed my mind and decided not to talk about that one*, but since you have explained it so well (and better than I could):..."

You are welcome to use the text in your instructions

AND to delete my message.

Also feel free to use my How Do I Do That?

Thank you! (I see you are better at this than I am.)
Will incorporate your message into the orig. one later this afternoon when I have some time.