comments page html

jsanders

i realise this can be done with an extension, and will add this with an extension if necessary, but i think it should probably just be part of the actual html. is there some way we could add a marker of some sort to the comments on the comments pages so it would be possible to reliably and efficiently access them via the DOM? what would be perfect would be something along the lines of a body div (which already exists) whose children is only divs or spans or somethings that contain the individual comments. as it stands, the body div has about 200 children for a 20-reply thread. on a side note, i can navigate the comment pages just fine via the dom, but there's certian things that muck up the rhythm, like the douchebag tag, which adds another child. forgive me if this isn't clear, it's a bit difficult to communicate.

jsanders

well... i just took another look, and there is, in fact, a div that contains each post. i guess that changes my question... does anyone know how to pick out/count the number of posts on a comments page via javascript?

jsanders

you guys can TOTALLY ignore this thread. i'm on top of this. completely. i swear, i just just abstain from communication on mondays. anyway, if you're interested, there's a property of elements that allows you to choose elements by class: element.className i'm all done for today. thanks for your time.

Mark

What would you like me to do exactly?

jsanders

nothing, nothing at all. i'm attempting to to keyboard shortcuts to the comments pages, but i'm learning all about the DOM firefox-style. it's been several years since i've done this, so the document.getElementsByTagname("div")[0].className attributes are a totally new experierience for me. so we're cool. i just need to catch up with the times.

Mark

:D