How do I close / get rid of the right hand column in Yahoo! mail?

Question

How do I close / get rid of the right hand column in Yahoo! mail?

I've put a red box around what I want to remove.

It's just using up space on the screen unnecessarily.

Answer 1

You can get rid of that column with a little bit of JavaScript. In Yahoo! Mail Basic, the following command will hide that column, making the content column (the middle column) extend to the right side of the screen:

document.getElementById('slot_LREC').parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.style.display = "none";

Running that command from the address bar (preceded by javascript:) or from the console will hide the column, but it won't be persistent -- the column will reappear as soon as you reload the page.

To make the change persistent, you can create a web browser extension that will automatically run that bit of code when you are on a Yahoo! Mail page. The steps for creating a browser extension vary depending on which browser you are using, but the JavaScript bit is the same.

These articles can walk you through the process of creating a browser extension:

Chrome:

• Getting Started Tutorial (Google)
• How to Create a Chrome Extension in 10 Minutes Flat (SitePoint)

Firefox:

• Your first extension (Mozilla)
• Browser Extensions (Mozilla)

---

If you are using AdBlock Plus, you can have it hide the column for you. See ADP's instructions for using a filter to hide specific elements to see how to do that.

Answer 2

The process described in freginold's answer doesn't move the margin or do anything for me.

I used this instead:

javascript:document.getElementById('slot_LREC').parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.style.display = "none";