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For some pages regarding sequels, I've seen that spoilers regarding previous installments are left unspoiled since those details are not hidden or a surprise in the sequels.
THE GOLDEN AGE WILL RETURN AGAIN!
It's possible to read book 1 and not yet get to the others, right? So maybe pretend you're a reader that just did that and trope book 1. Then pretend to be a reader who's read book 2, and trope based on what you'd know...?
Generally, people just don't bother with hiding spoilers which falls under First-Episode Twist, unless each work/episode has its own individual page.
If you plan to cover entire series on same page, there's no way to hide the spoilers from first instalment, unless you folderise the page (each book in its own folder), so may as well give up on it and keep such spoilers revealed.
Just make sure there's a prominent spoiler warning at the very top of the page - the usual model is a little like this:
Warning: Book 2 is a direct sequel to events in Book 1, so Late Arrival Spoilers for events in the first book are unmarked on this page.
It's pretty hard to spoiler-cover the fact a Trapped in Another World series is exactly that, when since about 1/3rd of the first book things are set in the other world - but it's not so obvious when starting to read the series, while book 2 aready takes place there and ONLY there, so kinda impossible to handle it as a spoiler. Same goes with the fact that Alice is a descendant of a deposed royal family: it's core element of the plot of the 2nd book, and part of a Logic Bomb needed to defeat the Big Bad, but it's a big twist in the book 1. Or how Bob, the Inept Mage, is perfectly capable of handling magic, just not the standard way and spends rest of the series as The Archmage. Or how book three is all about the Gambit Pileup from book 1 and 2 imploding, so everyone has to deal with various consequences of that, including few of the main characters being dead by then.
Edited by Tropiarz
^ Sometimes, it's just not possible to hide all the spoilers, so have to give up on that. Unless, again, you choose to folderise the page and put each book in its own folder.
Is there any specific guide or at least guidance how to handle spoilers in a book series, where twists from first tome are just impossible to keep not spoilered out in later books, because they create the very foundation for their plot? I've got a long overdue trope list for a trilogy and this is one of the last excuses for not finishing working on it since Easter - no idea how to handle spoilers for tome 1 of three, where 2 and 3 run on the stuff introduced in the first book.