#div(name) new function

sheepy · Post by **sheepy** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:14 pm

zeniko wrote:What about using XPath to...

Or, to attack it from another angle, there is a CSS3 selector (pseudo-class) called contains, e.g. E:contains("foo")

If it can be implemented in Firefox, then we have a simple solution.

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:12 pm

Where did you see that selector? http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/ doesn't have it - and I doubt something like this will ever be added to CSS, CSS is always strictly unidirectional (for performance reasons).

Edit: I found an older revision of that spec that indeed had E:contains("foo") - but this selector was removed in later revisions of CSS3, and with a good reason IMO. Even this old revision had a comment "restricted to static media types" - this feature was never meant for implementation in browsers.

pavlo · Post by **pavlo** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:23 am

sorry, div only hided elementes?
everything downloading all page and big traffic is stay?

Adblock Plus Fan · Post by **Adblock Plus Fan** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:31 pm

pavlo wrote:sorry, div only hided elementes?
everything downloading all page and big traffic is stay?

Yes.
Images inside a hidden div is still downloaded.

If you want to stop the big traffic you must block the images with a normal filter before you hide the elements.

pavlo · Post by **pavlo** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:18 pm

and how i doing it?

Adblock Plus Fan · Post by **Adblock Plus Fan** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:33 pm

pavlo wrote:and how i doing it?

If you have an image + div containing it:
First you do this to the image: http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_basics#blocking
Then you use Element Hiding Helper to hide the div.

pavlo · Post by **pavlo** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:37 pm

i'am not understand, it's function hide or cut images and div elements? If hide, then i'am not economy my traffic and it very bad

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:32 pm

'Hiding' elements is not to stop traffic. 'Hiding' is for removing text ads in the html and removing spaces left over from 'blocked' items AFTER downloading them. Those rules remove elements on the USER's own computer.

You need to "block" traffic to stop traffic. The rules are different:
"Advertisement filters" = "blocked"
"Element hiding rules" = "hidden"

"Blocked" = not downloaded (no traffic)
"Hidden" = downloaded, but not visible (still causes traffic)

Adblock Plus Fan · Post by **Adblock Plus Fan** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:26 pm

pavlo wrote:i'am not understand, it's function hide or cut images and div elements? If hide, then i'am not economy my traffic and it very bad

It's very simple. Adding to what Rick said:

This trick is "economy your traffic": http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1204/36959539kg7.png

This trick is "not economy your traffic": http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3034/64293334zn2.png

pavlo · Post by **pavlo** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:15 am

Add block image, it's very very not it's convenient.
Blocking only image and it not always posible.
And also flash video and etc.

Div hiding very convenient, but not economy traffic

adum · Post by **adum** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:39 pm

pavlo wrote:Add block image, it's very very not it's convenient.
Blocking only image and it not always posible.
And also flash video and etc.
Div hiding very convenient, but not economy traffic

Adblock image is only an example; you can block images, flash, gifs, java, .. even some javascript functions, but the filters cannot always be selected using context menu (i.e. flash videos control the context menu when you hover the mouse over them). But you can always open the Blockabe items window: when visiting a page, press Ctrl + Shift + B and it will appear a window with the complete list of the items that can be blocked; press one of them and the filters window will be opened with a filter suggestion.

Other kind of ads, like some javascript seudopopups (very usual in P2P and porn pages) and Google ads are "html text ads", which you cannot block but hide using CSS rules. Anyway, they use very little bandwith.