Draggable Reference Line

Designed for reading long articles, it helps remember the current reading progress.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Userscripts to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

You will need to install a user script manager extension to install this script.

(I already have a user script manager, let me install it!)

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

(I already have a user style manager, let me install it!)

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Draggable Reference Line
// @namespace    https://greasyfork.org/users/193469
// @description  Designed for reading long articles, it helps remember the current reading progress.
// @license      MIT
// @version      1.1.2
// @author       Rui LIU (@liurui39660)
// @match        *://*/*
// @icon         https://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip2/example.com.ico
// @run-at       document-body
// ==/UserScript==

(function () {
	'use strict';

	const height = 2; // px, height of the visible line
	const padding = 2; // px, additional draggable area above and below the line, not the sum of them
	const color = 'red'; // or #-string

	const body = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
	const line = document.createElement('div');
	const initPos = -padding - height / 2;
	line.textContent = '#DraggableReferenceLine';
	line.style = `margin: 0; padding: ${padding}px 0; cursor: n-resize; font-size: 0; color: #fff0; background: ${color}; background-clip: content-box; box-sizing: content-box; width: 100%; height: ${height}px; position: absolute; top: ${(localStorage[`DraggableLine_${window.location.pathname}${window.location.search}`] || initPos)}px; z-index: 2147483647;`;

	const reset = () => {
		line.style.top = `${initPos}px`;
		localStorage.removeItem(`DraggableLine_${window.location.pathname}${window.location.search}`);
	}
	let callbackMouseMove = ev => {
		line.style.top = `${ev.pageY + initPos}px`; // initPos is also the offset to line center
	};
	let callbackMouseUp = ev => {
		if (ev.detail === 1) { // Don't overwrite dblclick
			body.style.cursor = null;
			const top = parseFloat(line.style.top);
			top <= initPos ? reset() : localStorage[`DraggableLine_${window.location.pathname}${window.location.search}`] = top;
			[onmouseup, onmousemove, callbackMouseUp, callbackMouseMove] = [callbackMouseUp, callbackMouseMove, onmouseup, onmousemove];
		}
	};
	line.addEventListener('mousedown', ev => {
		if (ev.detail === 1) {
			ev.preventDefault(); // Don't select text
			body.style.cursor = 'n-resize'; // I know setPointerCapture, but see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57566090/setpointercapture-behaves-differently-in-chrome-and-firefox
			[onmouseup, onmousemove, callbackMouseUp, callbackMouseMove] = [callbackMouseUp, callbackMouseMove, onmouseup, onmousemove];
		}
	});
	line.addEventListener('dblclick', reset);

	body.appendChild(line);
})();