philc / philc/vimium

How to customise for recognition of clickable elements which are not links?

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Description

My web mailer looks like this:

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As you can see, there are some action buttons. Basically they are just DIV elements with special CSS classes like

<div class="item del" title="Löschen">Löschen</div>

Is there a way to customise Vimium to include them when highlighting links via f/F? I was thinking of something similar to customisable previous/next patterns where I could just add new ones in German to the existing ones in English.

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Research direction

Start by tracing how Vimium's f/F link highlighting identifies clickable elements, then compare that behavior with the existing customizable previous/next patterns. The work is done when users can configure recognition of DIV-based action buttons, including the example German web-mailer controls.

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Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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