Hiding Profile Items
On a Myspace profile, how do I hide the location and last login? I've seen other pages like this and it seems like a good idea for extra privacy on Myspace. |
Hiding Stuff in Your Myspace Profile
A lot of people write and ask how to hide the gender, their age, location or the display of the last login date on Myspace. I'll tell you first that you CAN hide certain elements on your Myspace page. But I also have to burst that bubble... because those things aren't truly hidden, at least not very well. Let's proceed with the instructions on how to hide those elements, then I'll tell you how easy it is to UNHIDE them, or view the not-so-hidden elements on other peoples' Myspace profiles.
To hide your gender, age, location, and last login on Myspace, do the following:
- Login to your Myspace account
- Click "Edit Profile"
- Copy and paste the following at the end of the headline section:
<font style="display:none;"> - Click "Save All Changes"
 Before Hiding |
See the image above for an example. This code will make all the text immediately following your witty headline invisible, but will not affect anything else on the page. One minor side-effect is that the closing quote on your headline will disappear. That's why I added the extra quote in the visual example above. Here are the before and after views: |  After Hiding |
Not Really Hidden?
But as I mentioned above, this hack and others that rely on the addition of HTML or CSS style code to your Myspace profile are FAR from foolproof. It requires very little skill to reveal things that are hidden like this.
If you use Internet Explorer, right-click on the page, then click View Source. A notepad window will open, showing all the HTML and CSS code that makes up the page. Scroll down or search for "Last Login:" then scroll up just a bit. You'll see all the hidden profile elements, including gender, age, location and the date of the last login.
If you use the Firefox browser, it even easier. Just click on View, then Page Style, then "No style". Voila... all is revealed! Scroll down the page and you'll see everything that you (or your friend) thought was hidden from view. So this really adds very little in terms on enhancing your privacy or security.
I discourage this method of hiding things on a Myspace profile because it can backfire. If Myspace changes the structure of the page at some point, you could end up with a mess. Things you wanted to hide could be visible, and things that should be hidden may not be. If you are concerned about Myspace privacy, you can always enter bogus data for your age and location in the profile editor.
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Most recent comments on "Hiding Profile Items"
(See all 70 comments for this article.)Posted by:
Jayne
01 Jan 2008
Hi. I've deleted everything in hope of finding some codes that will hide everything except heroes & about me. I put one code in just to try, which hides my last login and everything, but it displaces my whole profile, everything is centered, and it looks really weird. Why is this? Can you provide me with some codes to hide everything but heroes & about me?
Posted by:
moon
14 Jan 2008
i want to unhide my own comments.. seems everytime i put in my own made backgrounds my comments disappear.. ive searched hours now for one person who has this answer... say u do.. i used pmp profile editor...to create one... the comments there just invisible... help??? ill send ya a snickers!!!
EDITOR'S NOTE: Sounds like your background is the same color as the text of the comments. Can you change it and test?
Posted by:
alexa
29 Jan 2008
I have my comments hidden on mozilla firefox but they wont hide on internet explorer, what code can hide them for me?
Posted by:
lashay
19 Apr 2008
I need the code to hide the view all comments. It was on here and now I cant find it. Please help
Posted by:
Aarika
05 May 2008
My comments are disappearing as well. It shows the top two comments and as you scroll down they just disappear. I have been searching everywhere online and cannot find any help. Can you help?
EDITOR'S NOTE: I viewed your profile and did not see this happening. What browser do you use?
Posted by:
Dawn
18 May 2008
SO I just added a new layout on myspace, and it hid the song player itself. Is there a way I can get my player back?
EDITOR'S NOTE: You'd have to poke into the HTML and/or CSS that defines the layout and determine why the player is hidden.
Posted by:
cristina
20 May 2008
hi, my music box is missing (band profile) probably i hid it buy putting this new layout or something.. dont know what i should be looking for on the "about" section to get it back. Help pleeeeease!
EDITOR'S NOTE: Try removing whatever you added for the new layout. If all else fails, remove everything in the About Me section and start over.
Posted by:
kim
31 May 2008
HELP!! I hid my friends and comments on my myspace page a while back, and now forget exactly how I did it except I remember copying and pasting a code(s) somewhere while in the edit mode. I would like to get my friends and comments to be visible again. Thanks in advance for your expertise! :)
EDITOR'S NOTE: Edit your profile, and remove all the icky code in the About Me (or other) section.
Posted by:
Leaanne
04 Jun 2008
How do i hide my who id like to meet title i have tried a lot of codes but they aren't working Thanks :)
Posted by:
Roberta
26 Jun 2008
How i hide my member since?? or all general info?
i have myspace music!
Posted by:
Lando
09 Jul 2008
How do you hide JUST your gender?
Posted by:
Jason
15 Jul 2008
I would like to hide my comments but keep the add comment link there. How do i do that? thank you for your help.
Posted by:
yolanda lewis
04 Aug 2008
I have been looking for the code to hide all but one comment and I cant find it. None of the codes I've tried work, can you please give me the code to hide all but one comment, That would be nice
Posted by:
willie
07 Aug 2008
very specifically i want to hide gender, change age to 3 years old, keep location, keep last login, and keep online status on myspace profile. i've been searching everywhere. found a lot of helpful info,but haven;'t been able to nail down this specific request.
Posted by:
Sarah
30 Oct 2008
I found these instructions and code very helpful. Thank you very much! I got the EXACT result I was looking for!
Posted by:
chloe
12 Nov 2008
I have seen all the codes for hiding myspace sections...and ive tryed them ... but NONE of them work on my profile?
i dont know if this has to do with my layout code...or what but i dont know what to doo... HELPP?
Posted by:
lesly
13 Nov 2008
How can i hide the scroll line on the right side of my profile?Do you have a code for that?
Posted by:
angelica
01 Dec 2008
how can i hide my page source so no one can get my codes on friendster????please help me.....
Posted by:
babygirl
26 Feb 2009
thank you so mcuh for the help....but i do have a question. how when your profile is private..how do you hide the code that shows after the headline?
Posted by:
Ryan
21 Mar 2009
With the new Profile 2.0 that you are able to use on MySpace, you can now hide virtually anything you want to on your profile with just the click of a button.
Profile 2.0 allows you to hide any part you don't want to show.
It also will not show up when you go to "No Page Style" on Web Browsers such as Firefox.
No codes are involved at all that may make your page a mess; it's all done within the site and within using Profile 2.0.