Greasemonkey: highlight your username in red wherever it appears (find your own posts more easily) [closed]

Question

Install it on userscripts here

The posts of the person who asked the question are highlighted in blue, so why can't our own posts be highlighted? It makes finding my stuff much easier. Highlights anything that links to your user-profile (comments, answers, etc.)

any and all feedback or suggestions welcome!

source:

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Highlight your username on SOFU
// @namespace      CrazyJugglerDrummer
// @description    highlights wherever your username appears on the page
// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*
// @include        http://superuser.com/*
// @include        http://serverfault.com/*
// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

var userLink = document.getElementById("hlinks-user").getElementsByTagName("a")[1].href;

var links = document.getElementsByTagName("a");

for (var x=0; x<links.length; x++) {
    if ( links[x].href == userLink ) {
        links[x].style.color = "#f00"; 
        links[x].style.backgroundColor="#fcc";
    }
}

Answer 1

I love this idea.

I submitted it as a feature-request a few months ago: Highlight our own comments, too.

Vote it up. I would love to see it implemented natively.

Answer 2

+1 for the script and for the request to implement this natively :)

It apparently doesn't work anymore (hlinks-user doesn't exist anymore).

I have modified the script as follows (it highlights the whole post/comment, only tested in Chrome)

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Highlight your username on SOFU
// @namespace      CrazyJugglerDrummer
// @description    highlights wherever your username appears on the page
// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*
// @include        http://superuser.com/*
// @include        http://serverfault.com/*
// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*
// @require        https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js
// ==/UserScript==

// The main content of this userscript
function main() {
    var HighlightUserPosts = function(){
        jQ("a[href='"+userLink+"']").each(function(){
          jQ(jQ(this).parents('tr.comment, div.question > table > tbody > tr, div.answer > table > tbody > tr')[0]).css('background-color','#efe');
        });
    }

    var userLink = jQ('a.profile-me').attr('href');
    HighlightUserPosts();
    setTimeout(HighlightUserPosts, 2500); // Fire again after SOFU's highlight fades away
}

// Load jQuery and execute the main function
window.jQ = jQuery.noConflict(true);
main();