Scrolling text box feature??
Update: I found what I was looking for. Basically you just have to start a line with four spaces and then write something long enough to that it wraps onto the next line. Following is an example:
Start a line with 4 spaces and then continue typing without hitting the enter key so that the text starts to wrap onto the next line. This is a neat technique that you can use if you want to provide a hidden clue, or a translation perhaps. I think it's kind of a neat feature and maybe some others would like to use it too.
you can even insert a bunch of spaces and use smiley faces too.
reveal the hidden answer.
A long time ago, I saw some posts with scrolling text boxes.
They could be used for several purposes.
One that I remember, was that you could put an answer into the scrolling text box that wouldn't show up in the post until the reader would click on the scrolling text box to reveal the answer.
Another technique was to have an English sentence show up without scrolling, and then the reader had to scroll the box in order to read the Spanish. (or vice-a-versa)
Does anyone know how to do this? Or know how to find an old post with this feature?
I tried lots of searches with the hourglass on the questions page and haven't been able to find one yet.
I wanted to use this feature in a post I did today of a cartoon. I was going to use it to hide an explanation of the cartoon for anyone who didn't get the joke. But I can't find the instructions on how to do it.
Maybe it can't be done anymore. I remember that at one time a lot of html code worked that doesn't work anymore here. I tried some html code that I found elsewhere on the internet and when I submitted the answer, the SD engine stripped away all of the html code.
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Is this what you mean:
I do this accidentally sometimes by typing about five spaces in front of the line of what I am writing, directly in the answer box, not in what I have typed before in microsoft word (I always do everything in word and transfer it so it doesn't get lost, unless it is very short). It causes that to come up, it doesn't work with one space, it takes a number I have not experimented with how many.
Experimenting:
Click on the scroll bar for the hidden answer hidden answer.
Click on the scroll bar for the hidden answer hidden answer.
Click on the scroll bar to review all the answers answer 1.
Click on the scroll bar to review all the answers answer 2.
Click on the scroll bar to review all the answers answer 3.
Click on the scroll bar to review all the answers answer 4.
Hello!
This link from 2010 might be the answer to your question. Line breaks, pictures, links and other formatting tricks
Hope this helps.
Regards!