Cleaning Up ITV’s Live World Cup Page

Thanks to ITV and the BBC, I’ve had the World Cup on in the background.

Unfortunately the ITV page is full of stuff I just don’t want to see – all I’m interested in is occasionally glancing at the video and seeing the score.

To fix this I did the following:

  • Installed this extension for Chrome
  • Added a new rule
  • Set the regular expression for matching the URL to ^http://live.itv.com/*
  • Added some CSS

The CSS:

/* Remove the main background image */
body.tipsy { 
    background-image: none !important; 
    background-color: black;
}
.applicationArea { 
    background: none !important;
}

/* Hide the view buttons we don't want to use */
.game_menu h4,
.views_comments,
.views_grid,
.views_big-screen,
.views_video-highlights,
.share_button {
    display: none !important;
}

/* Clear out some backgrounds */
#game_menu_bar,
#alert_bar,
.open_block {
    background: none !important;
    background-color: none !important;
}

/* Remove the border from the video */
.video_container {
    border: 0 !important;
}

/* Hide other misc crap */
.comment_container,
#header_bar,
.footer,
#time_line,
#main_grid_panel {
    display: none !important;
}

This basically turns this:

Into a big black screen that looks like this:

Much nicer.

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