Re: adblock extension not filtering backgrounds

Philip wrote:
> 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.

I caught one of the ads on yahoo. Here is the offending html:

<table width="728" height="90" border="0" cellspacing="0" 
cellpadding="0" 
background="http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ya/yahoo_personals2/20050415_53485_v2_728x90_super_ypmiranda_w2m.jpg">
<form 
action="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=11u67nnqr/M=341859.6195605.7332986.54/D=my/S=150001156:N/_ylt=AnH3VR7wL7T0D0qsn9f6nxkE1vAI/EXP=1114725909/A=2683686/R=0/SIG=11i1nj0u5/*http://personals.yahoo.com/us/common/quicksearch" 
method="GET" target="_blank"><input type=hidden name="submit" 
value="1"><input type=hidden name="r_has_photo" value="2"><input 
type=hidden name="dest" value="search"><tr><td align="center"><table 
border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<tr>
<td width="330" rowspan="3"><a 
href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=11u67nnqr/M=341859.6195605.7332986.54/D=my/S=150001156:N/_ylt=AnH3VR7wL7T0D0qsn9f6nxkE1vAI/EXP=1114725909/A=2683686/R=1/SIG=10s6hn5si/*http://personals.yahoo.com"><img 
src="http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ya/yahoo_personals2/spacer.gif" 
alt="" width="330" height="86" border="0"></a></td>
<td width="398" style="font: 10px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; 
color: #997c55" align="center" valign="bottom" height="20"><img 
src="http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ya/yahoo_personals2/spacer.gif" 
width="10" height="8" alt=""><br>I'm a <select name="r_gender_pref" 
id="r_gender_pref" style="font: 10px Verdana,Arial,helvetica; color: 
#000000; background-color: #ffffff">
<option value="1" selected>Woman
<option value="2">Man</select>
seeking a <select name="r_gender" id="r_gender" style="font: 10px 
Verdana,Arial,helvetica; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff">
<option value="2" selected>Man
<option value="1">Woman
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="20" style="font: 10px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; 
color: #997c55" align="center">Age: <input name="r_min_age" style="font: 
10px Verdana,Arial,helvetica; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; 
WIDTH: 25px" id="r_min_age" size="2" maxlength="80"> to <input 
name="r_max_age" style="font: 10px Verdana,Arial,helvetica; color: 
#000000; background-color: #ffffff; WIDTH: 25px" id="r_max_age" size="2" 
maxlength="80"> City or ZIP: <input style="font: 10px 
Verdana,Arial,helvetica; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff" 
maxlength="80" size="5" name="csz"> <input type="submit" value="Find My 
Match" name="submit" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; width: 
95px; color: #ffffff; background-color: #bda069"><br>
</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="bottom"><a 
href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=11u67nnqr/M=341859.6195605.7332986.54/D=my/S=150001156:N/_ylt=AnH3VR7wL7T0D0qsn9f6nxkE1vAI/EXP=1114725909/A=2683686/R=2/SIG=10tbvh54u/*http://personals.yahoo.com/"><img 
src="http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ya/yahoo_personals2/spacer.gif" 
alt="Yahoo! Personals" width="380" height="25" border="0"></a></td></tr>
</table>