blocking an element that contains a certain element

giangurgolo · Post by **giangurgolo** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:13 am

I want to block a TR that contains a specific link, how would I go about doing that? I've tried many things, but they all only block the link element inside the TR instead of the whole TR that contains THAT link.

Thanks for any help and sorry if this has already been answered.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:27 am

You cannot hide elements from the "inside out". In other words, you can't define a TR from something that is INSIDE the TR.

If you'd like to leave the page, I will try to help.

*EDIT* I have had a similar discussion before on the EasyList forum:
http://www.richsterling.com/forum/viewt ... sc&start=0

giangurgolo · Post by **giangurgolo** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:09 am

Thanks for the fast response.

I looked over that thread, and I see what you mean. What I was looking to do was to block posts made by a specific user on a forum, and the only way I could specify that the post was made by the user was by the link to their profile which contains their id. Is this still not possible?

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:22 am

It's probably not possible in a forum environment because all posts are usually contained within a generic table row (tr) and THEN a user id and post is defined within it ... so it would fall under the rules of "inside out" if trying to hide a row based on the content within (the 'tr' would come before the post). In css, once the inline html code has been allowed or disallowed, you cannot create an argument afterward for something that has already been allowed.

Unfortunately, because you can't calculate where a user's name (or row) will show up in a forum table, you can't create a 'north/south' path to it either.

Sorry.