In an answer I recently posted I tried to use spoiler markdown on multiple consecutive paragraphs. It took a while and some help to get it to work right. In short, the issue seems to be with the white space between the paragraphs?
The markdown help on spoilers says:
Spoilers
To hide a certain piece of text and have it only be visible when a user moves the mouse over it, use the blockquote syntax with an additional exclamation point:
At the end of episode five, it turns out that
he's actually his father
So first I tried just putting >!
before each paragraph as the markdown help says, like this:
!Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus non risus lorem, ut interdum ipsum.
!Maecenas ut orci mauris. Maecenas molestie venenatis molestie. Praesent dapibus purus sed ligula viverra adipiscing.
As you can see, that didn't work. Realized I might have been missing whitespace after the >!
. So then I tried putting >!☐
(where the ☐ represents a trailing space, which is what I really entered):
! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus non risus lorem, ut interdum ipsum.
! Maecenas ut orci mauris. Maecenas molestie venenatis molestie. Praesent dapibus purus sed ligula viverra adipiscing.
But that, as you can again see, also failed. Finally @Niall C. (Thanks!) helped my by adding <BR>☐☐
to the end of the paragraph, and removing the return, as follows:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus non risus lorem, ut interdum ipsum.
Maecenas ut orci mauris. Maecenas molestie venenatis molestie. Praesent dapibus purus sed ligula viverra adipiscing.
This worked. Why? And can we document this better? Or I am I missing some other aspect of the markdown syntax documented somewhere else?
<br><br>
also works.