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After you click "I've checked all of these" nodes created after that time will contain the tags td.reply-new and td.reply-new-body which can be used to style newly created nodes. For example, you can use a different background color to highlight new nodes within a thread. After you click "Clear my 'last checked' time" these tags no longer appear.
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Re^8: Ability to mark specific "newest nodes" nodes as read (CSS td.reply-new)
by LanX (Saint) on Mar 06, 2024 at 15:22 UTC
    Wow, many thanks. :)

    I'm already here for over 15 years and wasn't aware of this.

    Mainly because it's only explained in About the Newest Nodes view only in context of Newest Nodes.

    Since it doesn't apply to RAT and most monks regard NN only as poor man's version, they will not know it either.

    But it's certainly useful if one visits a thread of multiple nested posts and the new ones are highlighted

    All I needed was putting this into my Display Settings 

    /* === Newest Nodes === */

td.reply-new      { background-color: #FC7 }
td.reply-new-body { background-color: #FBB }

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    Still have to check how this plays combined with the aforementioned :visited pseudo class.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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      Still have to check how this plays combined with the aforementioned :visited pseudo class

      It won't meaningfully. The :visited status of a link is managed by the browser, and it only pertains to links you have clicked. PerlMonks knows whether it has shown you any given post/comment, even when you didn't visit it directly by clicking on a link. Where I find :visited useful is when I do a SuperSearch and get a list of results. I can easily see which hits I may have already clicked on recently.

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        > > Still have to check how this plays combined with the aforementioned :visited pseudo class

        > It won't meaningfully.

        Not sure about that, one should be capable to supersede it with :visited to neutralize the effect.

        EDIT: Of course only within the current browsers scope.

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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      On that note: I just made it possible to highlight, analogously to the above, the 'new' replies in a thread when you have 'layout threads as <div>' checked in your Display Settings (as I do).

      Put the following in your CSS: 

      .reply.new { background-color: #FFB }

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      (Of course, you can choose the color that makes sense for your theme.)

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