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- nolan_vode - Jan. 11, 2005 06:00 AM

Tried in vain to remove the grey rectangular sections (for want of a better description) that appear on the right side & bottom of

http://www.tvguide.com/

The TV listings page (must login to see it unfortunately)

http://www.tvguide.com/Listings/index.asp?I=60911&zip=91406

adds a similar panel at the top.

Appreciate the help

thx

~nolan Big Teeth

- Oddysey - Jan. 12, 2005 01:29 AM

nolan;

Fortunately, your link points to a registration page that fairly much duplicates the layout of your intended page. It was easy to determine that the gray areas you mentioned are nothing more than 1x1 gif files called, of all things, space.gif. Prevent them from loading with an appropriate filter, and see what happens.

If the results look ugly, you could re-arrange the tables wherein the images were found. Peruse the source code, and build filters to remove the appropriate table data cells. Don't forget to compensate any other rows with new values for colspan where indicated.

Sometimes the remaining layout also looks pretty bad. In those cases, it might be better to leave the table data cells in place, and instead of loading the offending material (space.gif), load a 'blank' image from your local hard drive. TVGuide's space.gif is gray in color. You could build your own 'space.gif' with a white color (or what the heck, make it transparent), and point all references to your local copy.

Hope this helped. But tell us, Nolan, when do you find time to watch TV? [lol]


Oddysey

- nolan_vode - Jan. 13, 2005 05:02 AM

Hi Oddysey

Originally tried removing the space.gif & i-frame with my FF adblock extension to no effect, so I thought the solution lay elsewhere.

But When you mentioned space.gif, the simple filter I created to zap it plus removing the i-frame with adblock did the trick on the top & bottom areas. Wierd.

Only regret that I couldn't figure out the way to have prox do it all, so I could better understand what was going on.

Quote:Hope this helped. But tell us, Nolan, when do you find time to watch TV?
Necessary therapy for internet madness & prox filter frustration...lol

Thanks

~nolan Big Teeth