Fixing an upgrade.

[vakkotaur]

When I switched to PCLinuxOS I also went to the latest version of Opera. That was fine, but evidently my custom user.css file was clobbered despite my backup. One nuisance was that the despicable LJ navbar would show up again at times. Then I found that Opera was rendering the contemptible <marquee> tag and it wasn't just a stupid CSS trick. And then to really torque me off, I found Opera lowered itself even further to rendering the <blink> tag as well. This cannot be allowed to stand. One of the many reasons I started using Opera was that such idiocies were not rendered. Fortunately there is a work-around for this deficiency of rendering tags that really ought not to be rendered, but rather shot.

Swiped from various sources, but it does the job:

/* THOU SHALT NOT BLINK! */
/* Prevent blinking */
blink, .blink {
text-decoration : inherit !important; }

/* THOU SHALT NOT SCROLL, EITHER! */
/* Disable marquee: this exploits what is probably a bug */
marquee {
        display : table-row !important;
        font-size : 1em !important;
}

/* THE LJ NAVSTRIP IS AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE READER. */
/* Removes LJ NavStrip from _all_ pages. */
html body
{
  padding-top: 0 !important;
}

#lj_controlstrip
{
  display: none !important;
}

/* THERE IS NO OVERKILL: RELOAD AND KEEP FIRING. */
/* Removes CProds from LJ's NavStrip. */
div#lj_controlstrip_cprod {
  display: none !important;
}

Comments

[catwoman69y2k.livejournal.com]

Ill definitly see you later.....Im upgrading to Feisty Fawn today.

Kat

[yakko.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking this will also work for Mozilla and Firefox (how to do this)