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IE7 IE8 Browser EBay Forum Content Photo Hover Rip Javascript

Date Added:

2009-05-06 04:58:20

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Description:

An IE7 IE8 script to strip out or hide elements on the ebay discussion boards which removes the left and bottom of the boards. It also removes the ebay avatars that they use when a member does not have one. Removes the alt and text if someone has disabled viewing images in the browser. Sets a maximum width for images so when a member adds too large of one it does not break the forums thread. Removes the popup hover mouseover balloons. Also adds a simple but nice scrollbar coloring along with visited links color and sets the body width in on both sides by 2 percent. The javascript is a combination of using dom xpath element removal and css hiding.

To prevent IE crashing, some say disable "basic functions" under Modules in IE7PRO for now. In ie7pro I unchecked modules Forms, Mini download, online services, other unchecked and unchecked Enable plugins for now. Only using Ad Blocker, scripts, and Spell Checker and that so far appears to have stopped the periodic ie crash but some could be just fine.

May not need to do this but in IE7 a way to disable onmouseover - Enable ie7Pro Ad Blocker and add filter /ebdb/scripts/thread-tooltip.js to block. Could also add /ebdb/scripts/leftnav.js as a block filter if not using this script but want to prevent the hover over effect. The leftnav one affects the hover over popup on the far left but that is hidden so not really necessary to block that but could be one less script loaded. I also unchecked Enable default filter rules as some ad blockers are too agressive and sometimes it is better to manually add the blocks.

The code works on the first load but upon hitting refresh it loads everything so need to either click on a thread link or go to the browser url address and press enter OR use the breadcrumb path at the top of the page to reload the page. A better way to make this easier is to use the Links part of the IE7 browser. See http://www.microsoft.com/windows/about/customizelinks.mspx as could create a link to the forums and then just use that to quickly reload / refresh the page. Those are like toolbar buttons and can rename them to be very short. If they have a favicon image could just name it with one letter. So it is better not to use the IE7 refresh button on the ebay forums with this script. To refresh the thread pages can simply use the Go link at the bottom. See below for a possible better method of doing this.

May want to see some of the elements that are hidden so can modify as you see fit. Can remove the right side as well - see below in the javascript code. Can also add a background image located on your computer so it is similar to the ones done for the Firefox and Opera rips at userscripts.org - see code below as how to do that. Can add these to the Hide some elements section if wanting to hide the right column. .sidebar, #sidebar2, #sidebar-column,

Installed IE8 RC1 with leaving the IE7PRO settings the way described above works well. And IE8 uses the Find like Firefox. Also noticed a nice speed improvement with IE8. If the script does not work at first in IE8 try closing the browser and bringing it back up.

Two issues would like to resolve but not sure as to how. 1st is the Reload/Refresh button in IE that brings the original page back. 2nd is the possibility of how to reduce or eliminate the delay when this script gets implemented. Both issues could be related to "hooks" into IE7 or IE7Pro but maybe there is a way to code it so they work better? If anyone has any ideas as to these your input is welcome. Update: Believe for the most these two issues have been "resolved" with the manual custom method see below.

If re-installing this script make sure to uncheck or remove the other one first if the name of this script changes and might want to keep a copy if you had modified the other one.

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Another method is to use this Manual Custom process which is speedier.

Another way to do this without using a javascript. Does not handle the last post visited link color change (but can use another script to fix that but if wanting to see the change should use a Links button as described above - see below for a possibly better way) but the IE refresh button works normally when not using that script. Also if another site is using the #forum or other classes or id's this could affect those pages as well but likely unique enough as all the lines that are not using the domain. The Hide elements section specifies only to use at the forums.ebay.com site and the other ones could maybe be written to do the same. Can modify it as you choose. The delay is not as noticeable with this method so faster loading.

See http://www.iescripts.org/view-scripts-568p1.htm as to how to do this. This also works for the css part with the Maxthon browser.

If using or testing this one out make sure to uncheck the other javascript first.

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Maybe a better way to reload and could use this Favorites "button" to reload every page versus using the regular IE Refresh button.

One way to create Bookmarklets / Favlets to use with the Favorites bar in IE (need to make sure that is checked by right clicking on the toolbar).

Type about:blank in the address url and then Create Shortcut on your desktop. Rename the aboutblank to Reload or Refresh. Right click on it and select Properties. Click on Change icon. There is not many too choose from so create a New Folder on your desktop (right click on the desktop - New - Folder). Click on it and then right click on that folder and click on the Customize tab and then click on Change Icon. Now copy what is in the Look for icons in this file to the other open Properties for the shortcut and paste into and press enter and can select one that is more fitting. Click Ok then Apply then Ok (on Vista may have to answer Yes Ok a couple of times to make it work). Open up IE and move it to the right so you can see the new shortcut. Drag with the right mouse into the Favorites bar where you want. Right click on that shortcut and go to Properties. Enter this into the URL: field
javascript:window.location.reload( true );
Click Apply - may need to answer Yes - Click Ok - may need to answer Yes. You now have another way to reload/refresh every page versus using the IE Reload button and can use this for the eBay forums and every page you visit on the internet.

Can also create folders that can be used for the Favorites bar and select nice icons to use for them. And then drag those into the Favorites bar. But before doing that might want to put whatever shortcuts/favorites into it. Can later move that folder onto the desktop and do it that way or use the Favorites - Organize Favorites and move items as you like - will find the Favorites bar in that. So can have a line of various folders which will have a dropdown menu of shortcuts or favlets/bookmarklets to select from. For example, could have one for Apps and create a shortcut for Wordpad in it. Another one could be MyLinks and that is where your most used links are in. One for Search for like Google, Live, Yahoo, Ask etc. One for Favlets etc. A very nice way to have an organizer / manager for your IE toolbar.

Example as to how the IE toolbar can look like
http://profile.imageshack.us/user/myscripts/images/detail/#4/ie8toolbar.jpg

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// ==UserScript==
// @name           IE7 IE8 Browser EBay Forum Content Photo Hover Rip Javascript
// @namespace      http://iescripts.org/view-scripts-566p1.htm
// @description    An IE7 IE8 script to strip out or hide elements on the ebay discussion boards which removes the left and bottom of the boards. It also removes the ebay avatars that they use when a member does not have one. Removes the alt and text if someone has disabled viewing images in the browser. Sets a maximum width for images so when a member adds too large of one it does not break the forums thread.  Also adds a simple but nice scrollbar coloring along with visited links color and sets the body width in on both sides by 2 percent.  The javascript is a combination of using dom xpath element removal and css hiding.
// @include        http://forums.ebay.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {

/* Disable the hover mouseover. This also fixed the mysterious date visited links could not modify issue */
document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace(/onmouseover/gi, 'nomouseover');
document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace(/>a</g, '');

/* Start Css style sheet */
var cssStylesheet  = '';
cssStylesheet += '@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);';

/* Hide some elements by id and class to remove the left and bottom with a few top sections */
cssStylesheet += '#lw-navMyTopics,#my-topics-more,#thread-icon-legend,.thread-snippet,.announcement-body,.g-hlp,.g-pipe,.hprcp_e,.hprcp_n,.hprcp_w,.icon-forums,.jive-page-title,.jive-portlet-box,.live-page-description,.live-powered-by,.lw-announcement,.lw-featured-message-author-photo-avatar,.lw-left-nav,.lw-page-description,.mtitle,.pipe,.pnav,.snav,.rotator,.RTRemarQPanel1TD,.sidebar-minimize-control,.topictip {display:none;}';

/* Body background - add the location of the image on your computer between the double quotes and remove the two forward slashes if wanting to use this - could also use body, table, td if using a more plain background */
//cssStylesheet += 'body {background-image: url("C:/");}';

/* Maximum width for images */
cssStylesheet += 'img {max-width:600px;width:expression(this.width > 600 ? 600: true);}';

/* Body width, scrollbar color and do not show the bottom horizontal scroll bar */
cssStylesheet += 'body {margin-left:2%;margin-right:2%;overflow-x:hidden;scrollbar-face-color:#808080;scrollbar-arrow-color:#FFFFFF;scrollbar-highlight-color:#FFFBF0;scrollbar-3dlight-color:#808080;scrollbar-shadow-color:#FFFBF0;scrollbar-darkshadow-color:#808080;scrollbar-track-color:#CCCCCC;}';

/* Miscellaneous link colors */
cssStylesheet += 'a:link {color:blue !important;}';
cssStylesheet += 'a:visited {color:navy !important;}';
cssStylesheet += 'a:hover {color:darkgreen !important;}';
cssStylesheet += '#forum a:link {color:blue !important;}';
cssStylesheet += '#forum a:visited {color:navy !important;font-style:italic !important;font-weight:400 !important;}';
cssStylesheet += '#forum a:hover {color:darkgreen !important;text-decoration:none !important;}';
cssStylesheet += '#forum a:active {color:blue !important;}';

/* Main thread link on topics page */
cssStylesheet += '*html #forum .lw-threadlist-row td a:link h2 {color:#23238E !important;font-family:verdana !important;font-size:11pt !important;letter-spacing:1px !important;font-weight:light !important;}';
cssStylesheet += '*html #forum .lw-threadlist-row td a:visited h2 {color:navy !important;font-family:verdana !important;font-size:11pt !important;letter-spacing:1px !important;font-style:italic !important;font-weight:400 !important;}';
cssStylesheet += '*html #forum .lw-threadlist-row td a:hover h2 {color:darkgreen !important;font-family:verdana !important;font-size:11pt !important;letter-spacing:1px !important;}';

/* Date link section which goes to the last post in the thread */
cssStylesheet += '*html #forum .jive-last-post.lw-text {background:#E6E4E4 !important;border-bottom:1px dotted #A5AEC5 !important;letter-spacing:1px !important;}';

/* Change link colors for Reply and Link in the threads */
cssStylesheet += '.reply-button {color:blue !important;}';
cssStylesheet += '.lw-text a {color:blue !important;}';
cssStylesheet += '.lw-text a:visited {color:navy !important;}';

/* Change background colors for any odd row areas */
cssStylesheet += '.lw-threadlist-topic, .lw-thread-replies, .lw-user-photo, .lw-author-photo-frame, .lw-author-photo-bezel, .lw-photo, .lw-threadlist-row, .lw-threadlist-row-odd, .jive-bullet, .thread-icons, .ebayUpdate-img, .tacked-img, .thread-divider-container, .thread-divider, .lw-threadlist-row .lw-threadlist-row-odd, .lw-thread-body-user, .lw-message-row-odd {background:white !important;}';

/* Use IE7Pro code to implement the above css style sheet - method utilized from http://www.iescripts.org/view-styles-172p1.htm */
PRO_addStyle(cssStylesheet, document);

/* Remove the avatars ebay uses when someone does not have one - method utilized from http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/41290 */
var image, noshow = new Array(
"images/no_photo_thumb.gif",
"images/no_photo.gif",
"pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/community/myWorld/imgBuddyBig1.gif"
);
for(var im=document.images.length-1; im>=0; im--) {
image = document.images[im];
for(var x=noshow.length-1; x>=0; x--) {
if(image.src.indexOf(noshow[x])!=-1) image.parentNode.removeChild(image);
}}

/* Remove the alt and title text (useful when disabling images) - method utilized from http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/30956 */
var imagesa = document.images;
var img;
for (var ia = 0; ia < imagesa.length; ++ia) {
img = imagesa[ia];
img.title = "";
img.alt = "";
}

/* Hide the right column - remove the two forward slashes to hide that column - or could add .sidebar,#sidebar2,#side-bar-column, at beginning of the ccsStylesheet line after the first single quote */
//var RCol=document.getElementById("sidebar-column");RCol.parentNode.removeChild(RCol);

})();

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