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Facebook Highlight Birthdays

Highlights today's birthdays on your home page.

Recent Changes

0.7 (June 19, 2008) - Made compatible with Firefox 3.
0.61 (May 31, 2008) - Updated to work with all the other languages Facebook offers (Catalan, German, Spanish, French, Korean, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Norwegian, and Polish).
0.6 (May 3, 2008) - Fixed again to reflect changes to the site.
0.5 (April 25, 2008) - Fixed bug where upcoming events and birthdays would both be highlighted. Hopefully I've covered all the bases now.
0.4 (April 24, 2008) - Fixed bug where birthdays would not be highlighted if you had no upcoming events.
0.3 (April 23, 2008) - Fixed to reflect changes to the site.




May 24, 2008
Jordon Kalilich Script's author

Thanks, dariusz. But you've got me thinking, and I think I can make the script language-neutral. I'll work on it, but if it doesn't work out, I'll include the Polish translations and ask for people to submit others.
 
May 23, 2008
dariusz Scriptwright

hey man,

the script stops to work if you use any of the other languages facebook now supports.

i changed your code to adapt to Polish as well:

window.gm_HighlightBirthdays = function() {
   // the following gets events and birthdays. either or both may be there (or neither), but birthdays is always last.
   var foo = document.evaluate("//div[@class='sidebar_item birthdays']",document,null,XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,null);
   for (k = 0; k < foo.snapshotLength; k++) {
      birthdayBox = foo.snapshotItem(k);
      if (/Birthdays/.test(birthdayBox.getElementsByTagName('h2')[0].innerHTML) || /Urodziny/.test(birthdayBox.getElementsByTagName('h2')[0].innerHTML)) {
         var divs = birthdayBox.getElementsByTagName('div');
         for (i = 0; i < divs.length; i++) {
            if (divs[i].className.indexOf('sidebar_item_body') > -1) {
               var h4s = divs[i].getElementsByTagName('h4');
               for (j = 0; j < h4s.length; j++) {
                  if (/Today/.test(h4s[j].innerHTML) || /Dzisiaj/.test(h4s[j].innerHTML)) {
                     h4s[j].style.background = '#fffe88 ! important';
                     h4s[j].style.fontWeight = 'bold ! important';
                     h4s[j].style.padding = '5px 5px 0px 5px ! important';
                     h4s[j].nextSibling.style.background = '#fffe88 ! important';
                     h4s[j].nextSibling.style.fontWeight = 'bold ! important';
                     h4s[j].nextSibling.style.padding = '0px 5px 5px 5px ! important';
                  }
               }
               break;
            }
         }
         break;
      }
   }
}
gm_HighlightBirthdays();

 
Apr 26, 2008
iSecks.v2 User

Well, it didn't have any conflicting scripts, but I can't test anything until Monday, as nobody's birthday is today.
 
Apr 26, 2008
Jordon Kalilich Script's author

Try it now.
 
Apr 25, 2008
M0rph3u5 User

it hightlights but events only :l
 
Apr 25, 2008
Jordon Kalilich Script's author

It works for me. Make sure you don't have any scripts conflicting with it.
 
Apr 25, 2008
iSecks.v2 User

Hmm, doesn't seem to work..... I'll look into it and see if I can find out why...
 
Feb 10, 2008
Andreas F User

Thank you, I find this script useful and I like the colors to. :)
 
Oct 20, 2007
Trevor K. User

I really like it. I always hate it when I forget one of my friends' birthday because I don't see the info but now it always sticks out! Thanks!
 
Oct 13, 2007
Robbeh User

Simple yet brilliant. Props to you my good sir!

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