Getting Online Now icons to work with custom friends lists? Options

[larryvgs]

I hope someone can answer this, I've been everywhere and can find no answer.

On all of the custom friends lists I can find, none of the online icons seem to work any more. I know MySpace changed the code. Does anyone know the correct code that will make them work? I simply want to do a custom list now so I can have 7 friends across the full span of the page along with the two columns setup above, but I like the Online feature also. (I also hate when some celebrities use "the official this and the official that" in their names.) I keep using my own picture to test when I'm online, but I've also used other friends who I knew were online also by looking at my home page, replaced the code, and none of the custom lists worked. I've read "!important" must be used, that ImgOnlineNow instead of OnlineNow is used, that the width and height must be given, but none of that seems to work. I also know how to put the "Online Now" icon in code for myself or friends when in fact they are NOT online, but that is not what I want.

Anyone know the correct code for this now, or is this now impossible?

Thanks.

[larryvgs]

I don't think that it's possible to get online images for custom friends list... I will have to check

Thanks. I really have been everywhere looking for an answer to this, and it's the only thing I haven't found a MySpace solution for.

[Clashing]

Not sure if this will work but try adding this code in your about me.

CODE

<style type="text/css">
td.text td.text table table div img {visibility:hidden;}
td.text td.text table table div {
background-image:url("http://x.myspace.com/images/onlinenow.gif");
background-repeat:no-repeat;}
</style>

[larryvgs]

Well, no, that's for the section in my profile info and the online now icon works fine there. This is for trying to get the online now icon to show up under the friends photos when they are online in a custom friends list.

<div style="width:80px;height:20px;" ID="UserDataNode0" CLASS="DataPoint=OnlineNow;UserID=0;"></div>

The above code is what a couple of the custom friends lists were using, but it doesn't work now. You would have to increase the "UserDataNode" by one for each friend and replace UserID=0 with the ID of each friend. (UserID="12345678") But MySpace is also taking out the ID="UserDataNode0" and replacing it with ID="...0". I'm not even sure if that's necessary as one list I saw didn't have the "ID="UserDataNode0" as part of the code, but in any event, none of them work at all anymore.

[larryvgs]

Well, I've tried everything with the limited hacking knowledge I have, plugging in and out different codes and I have to go to work now. I can sort of see by looking at the source code what MySpace is doing with their javascript, but I can't figure out why it won't work when I plug in the same code as them in my custom friends list that they have in their friends and comments list, and when I can see on my home page that they are in fact online. I can see they are doing a check to see that the person actually is your friend now, so you just can't plug in anyone's picture and id and get the online thing to work, but I can't figure out why my own friends won't work. I am slightly disappointed there isn't some bright guy out there who hasn't figured this out yet. Or maybe it is impossible now. Seems hard to believe since I've found a solution on these boards to EVERYTHING else. Oh well... :-(