Making element hiding rule more specific?

[vasa1]

There is this site: http://www.smartinvestor.in/index2.php

In it, I want to block a specific section called "Message Board".

If I select the entire section, "pc_1_423 pc_box" is picked for hiding. Unfortunately, it occurs more than once in this page and so more than what I want to block gets blocked with both the rules below:
Rule 1 (ticking both Tag name:DIV and class: www.smartinvestor.in##DIV.pc_1_423.pc_box
Rule 2 (ticking only suggested default: class): www.smartinvestor.in##.pc_1_423.pc_box

Is there a way to have a more focused rule?

TIA

[LorenzoC]

Try these two lines:
smartinvestor.in##.line_tb1.cL TR
smartinvestor.in##H2.fL.w200

(they will hide the "messageboard" title and the table rows)

[Ares2]

Is there a way to have a more focused rule?

Yes, there is. What you have to do is you click the "Advanced view" button in the selector window. You will get a list of the sites' structure (you might have to make the window/area larger to see it). It includes your selected element (at the very bottom) and elements that precede your selected element (silbling and parent nodes). Now you just have to click one or more of them and select an attribute to define them on the right.

As a rule of thumb, just go from the bottom up and click id's, classes, etc. until the rule only hides the desired element. In your example, one could come up with a rule like this:

Code: Select all

smartinvestor.in##.pc_1_423.pc_box + .pc_2_250.pc_box + .pc_3_250 + .pc_clear + .pc_1_423.pc_box

[vasa1]

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Yes, there is. What you have to do is you click the "Advanced view" ...

Thanks Lorenzo and Ares2 .

@Ares2, you've given me a new toy. I didn't notice it at all At first glance, it seems to be a far more convenient and easy to use tool than Dom Inspector, at least for the specific purpose of making element-hiding rules. Thanks once again for pointing it out.