I am looking for a simple way for a CSS selector to match posts made by the current user (but not posts by other users). As far as I can tell, there is no CSS class added to such posts which I can use. But perhaps I am missing something? If there is no such class at the moment, I would greatly appr…

[image] meriksson: But perhaps I am missing something? Maybe you can use the data-user-id attribute in the .topic-post article tag?

One thing you could to is find the topics in topic list which have current user are the poster, that could be done with jQuery. If true, then apply style to that row. Downside could be that user can be found as poster to the OP topic. Other way is to override topic list component completely and do …

Sorry, are you saying to want to decorate user posts in topic list or in the actual topic? You could hook to the avatar of the current user in that case and find the parent post root element and add a class with jQuery to it.

Thank you for the replies! I am well aware that I can do this with Javascript. I should have mentioned that from the start. However, the point of my post is that I would like to do it in a much simpler way, with a tiny bit of CSS (see the expandable part of my original post). Besides being a simpl…

[image] meriksson: I am well aware that I can do this with Javascript. Oh, just came here to post the js solution. I made a group called hidelikes and this js hides the who-liked for all group members for their own posts. <script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8"> $( document ).…

Thank you very much for posting the actual code, that is helpful indeed!

After digging a bit in plugin-api I think I found solution to your problem and the proper way of doing what you suggested <script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8"> api.addPostClassesCallback((attrs) => { const user = api.getCurrentUser(); if (attrs.user_id === user.id) { …

This is great—thank you very much!

Where to add this code? I added to but not working fine.

CSS selector to separate posts by current user

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hellekin March 31, 2020, 1:51pm 2

Maybe you can use the data-user-id attribute in the .topic-post article tag?

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