Take that popup!

Ever been to a website that puts an annoying popup right over the link that you want to click.  As if that isn't annoying enough some sites don't have any apparent way of closing said annoying popup.  Introducing Internet Explorer developer tools.  With a few quick steps you can blast that popup off the screen.



Step 1.
hit the f12 key to bring up the developer tools window.

Step 2.
click the arrow icon (ctrl+b) to select the popup

Step 3.
click the popup (NOTE: the popup should have a blue outline when you have the entire popup selected)

Step 4.
in the developer tools window click on Attributes (right hand column)

Step 5.
in the name column type display (css)

Step 6.
in the Value column type none

Step 7.
Click enter and the popup should vanish.

If this does not cause the entire popup to disappear then just repeat steps 2 through 7 until all pieces of the offending window are gone.

if the entire window, or any part you do want, disappears then just refresh the page and start over.  

Clicking f12 again will toggle the developer window off.