Is there a way to use spoiler tags in an external editor?

[gernboes]

Having lost my progress editing a pretty big post - must have timed out or something. I resorted to pre-editing externaly and then copy&pasting into the forum editor (which doesnt really work perfectly anyway). The only problem i have with this is that i cant put tags into my pre-editing. With the old editor, i could just put the text tags (ie <spoiler> </spoiler>) and be done. With the new editor, this seems impossible. Or is there a way to do this? Or does anybody edit bigger posts (events and so on) externaly and has a different solution for this?

[crimsonidol38]

1 hour ago, gernboes said:

Having lost my progress editing a pretty big post - must have timed out or something. I resorted to pre-editing externaly and then copy&pasting into the forum editor (which doesnt really work perfectly anyway). The only problem i have with this is that i cant put tags into my pre-editing. With the old editor, i could just put the text tags (ie <spoiler> </spoiler>) and be done. With the new editor, this seems impossible. Or is there a way to do this? Or does anybody edit bigger posts (events and so on) externaly and has a different solution for this?

 

The correct tags to use are the following ones:
 

[spoiler]This is the text I want to put into a spoiler[/spoiler]

You have to use the square-bracked [ and ]. But beware that editing larger posts outside of the forum's editor may result in strange behavior. I for myself noticed that it sometimes newlines a bit differently than it should do. 

1 hour ago, gernboes said:

Or does anybody edit bigger posts (events and so on) externaly and has a different solution for this?

 

To answer that question:
Some people use either Microsoft Word or LibreOffice/OpenOffice. I for myself use the old BBCodes and copy-paste it into the editor and fix any strange rendering (like the newline-problem) afterwards.

[gernboes]

4 hours ago, Crimson Idol said:

 

The correct tags to use are the following ones:
 

[spoiler]This is the text I want to put into a spoiler[/spoiler]

You have to use the square-bracked [ and ]. But beware that editing larger posts outside of the forum's editor may result in strange behavior. I for myself noticed that it sometimes newlines a bit differently than it should do. 

 

To answer that question:
Some people use either Microsoft Word or LibreOffice/OpenOffice. I for myself use the old BBCodes and copy-paste it into the editor and fix any strange rendering (like the newline-problem) afterwards.

Great, thanks, that actually helps me a lot! I think before the update, it was the other brackets <>, but it could be im imagining that...  
I guess ill do it that way too from now on!