Re: adblock extension not filtering backgrounds

DC wrote:
> Philip wrote:
> 
>>Some annoying yahoo ads started to appear that I could not get adblock 
>>to filter. It seems these graphics are tablbe backgrounds.
> 
> 
>>Is there a way to get adblock to zap these things too?
> 
> 
> URL?  I might have a solution but would like to try it first, before I
> step on my, uh, thingy.  }:O)
> 

It was one of Yahoo's ads. So it only appears sporatically. I wish now that I
had saved the page source.

Basically you can try to jury rig it. The ad image is the background attribute
of a table. The table element(s) contains a transparent spacer.gif that give the
table size, but allow the background to show through.