Willy, could you make two additions?

1st When I look into the stats table I would like to see the row where my account is to be highlighted.
2nd When I click on a link to a designated position by URL#target I would like that row to be highlighted as well.
3rd When hovering over a row with the mouse would great to see that row to be highlighted.

For the CSS part it is not difficult to realize, but as I don't know the php sourcecode I cannot propose a ready state solution.


boincstats.css:
after
insert
of course enter the color codes you desire.
If the last one is not desired for the whole BS site but only for the stat tables you could make it "tr.stats:hover".

For the boinc_user_stats.php in where you give the designated rows (tr tag) the attribute class="xxx" where xxx is the class for the appropriate case.

Is this what you had in mind?

There are some issues with this. CSS alone won't work, as IE doesn't support all needed features. I had to use JS to make it multi-browser compatible.

Futhermore I need to check all links within BS and remote links need to be changed to show the highlighted row. The problem us that the anchor (the value after #) is not available to PHP, so a new value needed to be added to the url.

(Lee; shoot me down)

Err... of course can you access the #xx of the url:


And btw: you could even use CSS:

But anyway: Yes it's what I have in mind.

AndyK

I hate to disappoint you, but you are wrong. Of course I tried what you propose, and when that didn't work I tried a number of different $_SERVER vars. Then I searched the net where I found lots of people with the same problem. (Just one of the many threads about this problem)

The anchor is not send to the server by the browsers. It's only used client-side. JS can read it, but PHP (or any other server-side script) can't read it.

I also decided against doing this in PHP as it would interfere with the caching mechanism. Worst case a single page would get 101 cached copies, a page for every single row highlighted, and a page without a highlighted row.

Implemented it in BOINC user stats first. When there are no problems I'll implement it in all stats.

Thanks for this excellent idea.

I hate to admit it, but you are right.

Thanks for the implementation. How did you do it now?
Only with JS, or with the CSS command "a:target" ?

AndyK

JS for changing the colors (or actually the class), colors (classes) defined in CSS. Works with all (at least the ones I tested) browsers.

Very nice improvement for readability, thanks guys!