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I know that you can easily

Mouse over spoiler markdown to reveal spoiler tag information, but

I would like to suggest an opt-out setting that will automatically show the spoilers for you. This would make them easier to read at once instead of moving the mouse across the screen. Just a suggestion.

I've moved it to Site-Wide: Opting out of hiding the spoiler text so share your opinion.

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    I'll +1, but I'm skeptical that there are many people out there who don't care about being spoiled on anything. – user1027 May 17 '11 at 17:01
  • Its not that we don't care, as much as we're partially curious. We all peak... anyway. – JustinKaz May 17 '11 at 17:11
  • Maybe like a click-on and display an orange box saying "You have disabled hidding spoilers, click again to hide spoilers by default." – JustinKaz May 17 '11 at 17:44
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    meta.stackexchange.com/questions/91682/… – JustinKaz May 17 '11 at 18:36
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    General announcement: Posting on a child meta is absolutely fine! The Stack Exchange team monitors all of the child metas.. Don't make Rebecca Chernoff sad! – user56 May 17 '11 at 19:06
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    @gilles What happens in cases like this where there are duplicates on child and parent meta? Does this get closed as a dupe of the parent? It seems wasteful to repeat answers in both places. – Tony Meyer May 17 '11 at 23:39
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    @Tony: Considering we're one of the biggest users of spoilers on SE at the moment, I think we need to have this question on our meta anyway. @Justin: given that you posted both questions, you'll be notified of answers on both sites, so you'll have the burden of reporting interesting contributions. – user56 May 17 '11 at 23:43
  • Thanks @gilles, I could use the user script, but I don't want it to harm future functionality. – JustinKaz May 18 '11 at 1:15
  • I care. I hate spoiling a movie for me. – scifiaddict Apr 18 '12 at 5:39
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The spoiler tag is just a bit of CSS. I believe all modern browsers allow use of a user style sheet. So all you need to do is add a rule that overrides the CSS in your user style sheet, and you're done.

(I don't think user style sheets can be site-specific, so this would change any site that uses the "spoiler" CSS class. If that does have an impact, then IMO a better feature request would be to have SE change the class to something like "stackexchange-spoiler").

For example, in Safari, go to Preferences, then Advanced, then select the stylesheet.

Your stylesheet only needs to contain something like this:

.spoiler { color: #444 !important; }

444 is the colour that you get when hovering (at least on this site) - you could make it something else if you wanted spoilers to stand out in some way (e.g. so you avoid referencing them in answers!).

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This is far too much of a niche feature to be implemented in the Stack Exchange software. But this is easily fixed on the browser side.

See the similar question on the main Stack Exchange meta site for a user script by Michael Mrozek.

There's a Stack Exchange site for user scripts. I don't see any script about spoilers right now. If you find or write one, please announce it here.

  • PS, I wrote that question. – JustinKaz May 18 '11 at 1:12
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I've created the StackApps entry for the UserScript and a Safari Extension.

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