Is there any way we can improve the spoiler formatting?

Question

The spoiler line is great for hiding text:

If you edit this post, you can see the ways I tried to use the spoiler formatting which produced the fails.

But it can be difficult to use sometimes.

! Maybe I want to have multiple chunks hidden in a row

! Well nope, does not work like that

You have to include non-blocked text between two things in spoiler hiders

That non-block text above made me exist!!!

Well that's a simple fix right?

! Just put all the text in one block. Put a return at the end of a line and indent the next paragraph with some spaces. Ahhh, if only it worked that way, then that's what we would do.

But it doesn't, so we have to talk

like

this

.

Does anyone know why the spoilers behave this way, and is there anything we can do to make them function as blocks?

Edit: Based upon Koa's answer and ABCdexter's question, I started testing what things work in a spoiler.

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Answer 1

Spoilers totally work with multiple lines:

Just
have
two

spaces
after
each
line

Also, you need to add a new >! at the start of every line.

>! This shows up
>! as a multi line spoiler.
>! Like breaks
>! Are a double empty space
>!
>! Like that.

This shows up
as a multi line spoiler.
Like breaks
Are a double empty space

Like that.

If you need two spoilers with no text in between
>! Do

<! >
>!this

Do

this

For code blocks in spoilers
>! Do something<pre><code>like ...
>!this</code></pre>

Do something

like       ...
this

Aligned equations must be on one line though
>! Like so\begin{align}f(x)&=0&\text{if }&x\neq 0\\&=1&&x=0\\\end{align}

Like so\begin{align}f(x)&=0&\text{if }&x\neq 0\\&=1&&x=0\\\end{align}

Answer 2

Separate lines with \n>! like this:

>!Line 1  
>!Line 2  
>!Line 3

Note that these are:

>!Line 1   <------- TWO SPACES
>!Line 2   <------- TWO SPACES
>!Line 3       <---------  NO SPACES

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3

Answer 3

If you want to have multi-line spoilers

 

with a linebreak in between them,

 

you can use a blank line, a line containing just  , and another blank line