The color thing is not reliable, because 1) the white here isn't true white, and 2) people can change the order in which they are viewing the posts, which can change the background colors to them.
Zomis wrote:I didn't know the post order could be changed though, but it doesn't suprise me.
At the bottom of the topic viewing page, there is an option that says "Display posts from previous: [All Posts] [Oldest First]"; those are the default settings.
Sascha wrote:Couldn't you change the background to each colour then?
I don't think you can, but I haven't seen all the forum code possibilities ,so it could be do-able. Just changing the text was fine until I found you could change the post order...there's always some snag to ruin your life...
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I'm sorry for ruining your idea, so I'll tell you that (probably) very few people use the post order and post filter settings, because in this version of phpBB, you can't save those settings.
Another way to hide text is to use the font size tag with something like or [size=0]. Then the user has to either copy and paste the text into somewhere else, view the HTML source code, or the easiest way, viewing the BBCode source code by using the "quote" button.