Re: adblock extension not filtering backgrounds

Roland wrote:
> On 28-4-2005 22:14, Philip wrote:
> 
>> 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"> 
>>
> 
> You could add the following line to AdBlock (Tools -> AdBlock -> 
> Preferences; press label /Add/ to the right of the New Filter input field):
> 
> http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ya/yahoo_personals*
> 

This does not work. The image is in the background attribute of the 
table and is not filtered.