Spoiler box or html/markdown/LaTeX mixing

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One can currently use the following spoiler box in obsidian using html:

Who is Fëanor?

Fëanor is a elf in J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion. He creates some nice gemstones and makes a number of bad decisions.

This workaround has disadvantages.

  1. Typing the requisite code takes a non-trivial effort. I personally had to implement a textsnippet in autohotkey to be able to use it frequently.
  2. Obsidian does not support mixing html and markdown. This causes the following problems.
    • Bullet lists do not work in the environment.
    • Newline does not render as desired. Instead one has to type <br>.
    • LaTeX code will not be rendered as discussed over here

Some proposed solutions:

  • Implementing a spoiler box inside of obsidian.
  • Somehow allowing markdown and html to be mixed.
  • Making LaTeX usable inside of html.
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It’s really a good idea.
For the moment you can use the admonition plugin with a collapse. The bad thing about it, it uses code, so, if you want to use to hide some backlink, they don’t link in your graph (for example).

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Thank you, that’s perfect for my purposes!

For any future readers, here’s a copyable example:

```ad-question
title: Who is Fëanor?
collapse: Fëanor is a elf in J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion. He creates some nice gemstones and makes a number of bad decisions.
```

Also, if anyone uses autohotkey the following hotstring executes on typing µq + space and places your cursor at the title entry.

::µq::
SendRaw, `````` ad-question`rtitle: `ncollapse:`r``````` `r
SendInput, {left 15}
return