Green Items Whitelisted?

[bahb]

The FAQ maybe assume all Users know things I wish I knew, like why the green-text items have "Whitelist" typed above them, though they look like items I would want blocked.

And am I to assume that "Enabled" means "blocked"?

Sorry, It's probably all very logical but it takes alot of blind trust to use the Firefox add-ons and extensions when not gifted with that kind of logic.

Maybe I would find some simple directions some place?

Thanks,
Bahb

[Wladimir Palant]

Hm, if you see "whitelisted", you also see "filter in effect", no?

[bahb]

Maybe a different way of asking the question would get me a helpful answer.

What's the difference between the URL's in the black print, the green print or the blue print?

Is the filter the same for the "white listed" entries as it is for all the other entries?

Thanks,
Bahb

[adum]

Maybe a different way of asking the question would get me a helpful answer.

What's the difference between the URL's in the black print, the green print or the blue print?

Is the filter the same for the "white listed" entries as it is for all the other entries?

Thanks,
Bahb

URL in black print: items not matching any filter or element hiding rule, so they are displayed.

URL in red print: items matching one (or more) filter or element hiding rule, so they are not displayed. If you hover the mouse over them, you can see the filter being applied.

URL in green print: items matching one whitelist rule (you can consider it a "negative filter") so they are displayed. If you hover the mouse over them, you can see the whitelist rule being applied.

URL in white print with blue background: selected item. You can only distinguish the kind of action performed (none, whitelisted, blocked) with the "enable" column. Clicking twice or through left click context menu you can edit the filter being used or check a proposal of new filter for the item.

The colors and symbols (red and grey bullets, green marks) for the different items have been discussed three or four times in this forum, looking for themes compatibility and avoiding problems for color blind people.

And the "filter" for the whitelisted entries is just the opposite than a blocking filter. It means "all the items matching this filter will not be blocked, regardless if they match with one or more blocking filters.

[bahb]

Ah, maybe if the hover worked for me, I wouldn't have had to ask the question. Hovering works on other sites.... on my mail client, for instance.... but not on the filters list. Do you know of some configuration setting I might change to make it happen here?

Thanks,
Bahb

[chewey]

He doesn't mean the blockable elements list, but ABP's main menu.

bahb:
I don't really understand what you don't understand.

The green rules titled Exception rules are exactly that: They whitelist
otherwise potentially blocked content.

The black ones titled Advertisement filters are... well... the "normal"
filter rules

The blue rules titled Element hiding rules are (surprise) rules to hide
elements in a page.

See http://adblockplus.org/en/filters

[rick752]

Maybe this is what he means:

The black items are untouched.

The red rules are regular adblocking rules and need nothing more than to be added to the filters to block. These are never downloaded

The green rules are always 'allowed' (whitelisting) rules and always have to start with "@@". Anytime you start a rule with @@, it becomes an 'exception' rule.

The blue rules are element-hiding rules. The syntax for doing those is much different than the ones above ... they have their own type of css-type coding. Those aways use one or two "##" to designate them as element hiding. These only "hide" things on a page ... the object is still downloaded. These are usually only used for text ads, some spaces left over from blocking something, or some small images. These cannot be whitelisted ... they always work unless the string is disabled.

Anytime you, yourself, create a rule using those syntaxes, they will automatically appear in the correct section in the filters list. They will appears under "Advertisement filters", "Element hiding rules", or "Exception rules" depending on what they are. The colors are created depending on how it is written per the above info.

I hope that is what you wanted to know.

[Alan]

The blue rules titled Element hiding rules are (surprise) rules to hide
elements in a page.

What blue rules?...OMG, I never noticed that before! The difference between the blue and black text is so subtle that I didn't see the blue color until now. Maybe that's because I subscribe to the EasyList separately from EasyElement and consequently their filters aren't mixed together.

[rick752]

Yup, Alan ... element-hides are dark blue.