Hide "Created by" via CSS doesn't work (CSS selector is missing)

[Wilhelm Klauditz]

Hi there,

I would like to hide "Created by [author name]" in the blog posts overview (Blog Posts macro). For the author name I have found the CSS selector. But I cannot find a CSS selector for the "Created by". It's part of the span element "blog title". If I hide that via CSS the blog title is gone, too.

How can I hide "Created by" without hiding the blog title?

[Bill Bailey]

Could you paste the HTML of that element (including parent elements)? There may be another way to select that text.

[Wilhelm Klauditz]

Hi Bill,

sure. Here is an example. I translated our German text elements into English for a better understanding:

<div class="blog-post-list conf-macro output-block" data-hasbody="false" data-macro-name="blog-posts">
<h4 class="sub-heading">WKI News</h4>
<ul>
<li class="blog-item">
<span class="blog-title"><span class="icon aui-icon content-type-blogpost" title="News">News:</span><a href="/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=20513401">The presentation of the works meeting from December 11, 2020 is now online</a>
Created by</span>
<div class="blog-item-creator"> <a href=" /display/~test-user
" class="url fn confluence-userlink userlink-0" data-username="test-user" title="" data-user-hover-bound="true">User, Test</a></div>
<div class="blog-item-date">
Dez 15, 2020
</div>
<div class="blog-item-space"><a href="/display/WKI">WKI</a></div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>

[Bill Bailey]

Yes, they got lazy and didn't give us anyway to select that content. The only way I can think of requires surgery -- editing the layouts (found in the admin macro) to close the earlier span element, and open a new classed span element for "Created by". I took a quick look on my local version (6.13), and you will have to start at the layouts, then find which of the referenced velocity macros renders a blog post and edit that code.