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You can nest details/summary tags. I once created a choose-your-own adventure using it and posting it on our corporate intranet (I had a generator script to stitch things together. The actual text was only a few pages long.) The HTML was 5mb ... I broke a lot of browsers that day. It had to be deleted.

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This sounds interesting, but I’m not following. Do you mind expanding?

Specifically, how does nesting details/summary tags relate to 5 MB of HTML, and how does that relate to breaking a lot of browsers?

Sounds like a great story, and I’d love to hear it!

If you have a story with the following prompt:

> go left

> go right

Where each of those is a branch in the story. Even if both branches converge eventually, all possibilities need to be in each branch. And so on. The number of summary tags is n! where n is the number of possible decisions.

Thus you very, very quickly end up with a very large dom. Browsers aren’t really optimized to display hundreds of thousands of these tags, so they crashed.

Lol. Hilarious! Thanks for elaborating.

The GP made an entire game in an (autogenerated) static HTML file. Most browsers don't have a 5MB single HTML as an usual target, and I guess not as a test case either.

Got it. Thanks!

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