Intelligently reverses ill-conceived element fixing on sites like Medium.com
// ==UserScript==
// @name Unfix Fixed Elements
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 1.4
// @description Intelligently reverses ill-conceived element fixing on sites like Medium.com
// @author reagent
// @match *://*/*
// @noframes
// @grant none
// @run-at document_start
// ==/UserScript==
const helloFrom = "the other side";
(function () {
'use strict';
const className = "anti-fixing"; // Odds of colliding with another class must be low
const inlineElements = [ // Non-block elements (along with html & body) which we will ignore
"html", "script", "head", "meta", "title", "style", "script", "body",
"a", "b", "label", "form", "abbr", "legend", "address", "link",
"area", "mark", "audio", "meter", "b", "nav", "cite", "optgroup",
"code", "option", "del", "q", "details", "small", "dfn", "select",
"command", "source", "datalist", "span", "em", "strong", "font",
"sub", "i", "summary", "iframe", "sup", "img", "tbody", "input",
"td", "ins", "time", "kbd", "var"
];
const fullBlockSelector = inlineElements.map(tag => ":not(" + tag + ")").join("");
const ltdBlockSelector = "div,header,footer,nav";
class FixedWatcher {
constructor(thorough = false) {
this.watcher = new MutationObserver(this.onMutation.bind(this));
this.selector = thorough ? fullBlockSelector : ltdBlockSelector;
this.awaitingTick = false;
this.top = [];
this.bottom = [];
}
start() {
this.trackAll();
this.watcher.observe(document, {
childList: true,
attributes: true,
subtree: true,
attributeFilter: ["class", "style"],
attributeOldValue: true
});
window.addEventListener("scroll", this.onScroll.bind(this));
}
onScroll(){
if(this.awaitingTick) return;
this.awaitingTick = true;
window.requestAnimationFrame(() => {
const max = document.body.scrollHeight - window.innerHeight;
const y = window.scrollY;
for(const item of this.top){
item.className = item.el.className;
if(y === 0){
item.el.classList.remove(className);
}else if(!item.el.classList.contains(className)){
item.el.classList.add(className);
}
}
for(const item of this.bottom){
item.className = item.el.className;
if(y === max){
item.el.classList.remove(className);
}else if(!item.el.classList.contains(className)){
item.el.classList.add(className);
}
}
this.awaitingTick = false;
})
}
onMutation(mutations) {
for (let mutation of mutations) {
if (mutation.type === "childList") {
for(let node of mutation.removedNodes)
this.untrack(node)
for (let node of mutation.addedNodes) {
if (node.nodeType !== Node.ELEMENT_NODE) continue;
if (node.matches(this.selector)) this.track(node);
node.querySelectorAll(this.selector).forEach(el => this.track(el));
}
} else if (mutation.type === "attributes") {
if (this.friendlyMutation(mutation)) continue;
if (mutation.target.matches(this.selector)) {
this.track(mutation.target);
}
}
}
}
friendlyMutation(mutation){ // Mutation came from us
if(mutation.attributeName === "class"){
if(this.top.findIndex(({el, className}) => el === mutation.target && className === mutation.oldValue) !== -1) return true;
if(this.bottom.findIndex(({el, className}) => el === mutation.target && className === mutation.oldValue) !== -1) return true;
}
return false;
}
untrack(_el){
let i = this.top.findIndex(({el}) => el.isSameNode(_el) || _el.contains(el));
if(i !== -1) return !!this.top.splice(i, 1);
i = this.bottom.findIndex(({el}) => el.isSameNode(_el) || _el.contains(el));
if(i !== -1) return !!this.bottom.splice(i, 1);
return false;
}
trackAll(){
const els = document.querySelectorAll(this.selector);
for(const el of els)
this.track(el);
}
getClassAttribs(el){
// Last-ditch effort to help figure out if the developer intended the fixed element to be fullscreen
// i.e. explicitly defined both the top and bottom rules. If they did, then we leave the element alone.
// Unfortunately, we can't get this info from .style or computedStyle, since .style only
// applies when the rules are added directly to the element, and computedStyle automatically generates a value
// for top/bottom if the opposite is set. Leaving us no way to know if the developer actually set the other value.
const rules = [];
for(const styleSheet of document.styleSheets){
try{
for(const rule of styleSheet.rules){
if(el.matches(rule.selectorText)){
rules.push({height: rule.style.height, top: rule.style.top, bottom: rule.style.bottom});
}
}
}catch(e) {
continue;
}
}
return rules.reduce((current, next) => ({
height: next.height || current.height,
top: next.top || current.top,
bottom: next.bottom || current.bottom
}),{
height: "",
top: "",
bottom: ""
});
}
isAutoBottom(el, style){
if(style.bottom === "auto") return true;
if(style.bottom === "0px") return false;
if(el.style.bottom.length) return false;
const {height, bottom} = this.getClassAttribs(el);
if(height === "100%" || bottom.length) return false;
return true;
}
isAutoTop(el, style){
if(style.top === "auto") return true;
if(style.top === "0px") return false;
if(el.style.top.length) return false;
const {height, top} = this.getClassAttribs(el);
if(height === "100%" || top.length) return false;
return true;
}
topTracked(el){
return this.top.findIndex(({el: _el}) => _el === el) !== -1
}
bottomTracked(el){
return this.bottom.findIndex(({el: _el}) => _el === el) !== -1
}
track(el){
const style = window.getComputedStyle(el);
if (style.position === "fixed" || style.position === "sticky") {
if((style.top === "0px" || style.top.indexOf("-") === 0) && !this.topTracked(el) && this.isAutoBottom(el, style)){
this.top.push({el, className: el.className});
this.onScroll();
}else if((style.bottom === "0px" || style.bottom.indexOf("-") === 0) && !this.bottomTracked(el) && this.isAutoTop(el, style)){
this.bottom.push({el, className: el.className});
this.onScroll();
}
}
}
stop() {
this.watcher.disconnect();
window.removeEventListener("scroll", this.onScroll.bind(this));
}
restore() {
let els = document.querySelectorAll("." + className);
for (let el of els) {
el.classList.remove(className);
}
}
}
document.documentElement.appendChild((() => {
let el = document.createElement("style");
el.setAttribute("type", "text/css");
el.appendChild(document.createTextNode(`.${className}{ display: none !important }`));
//el.appendChild(document.createTextNode(`.${className}{ position: static !important }`));
return el;
})())
window.addEventListener("keydown", e => {
if(e.altKey && e.key === "F"){ // ALT + SHIFT + F
e.preventDefault();
if(window.fixer){
console.log("Removing fixer");
fixer.stop();
fixer.restore();
window.fixer = null;
}else{
console.log("Adding fixer");
fixer = new FixedWatcher();
fixer.start();
window.fixer = fixer;
}
}
});
let fixer = new FixedWatcher();
fixer.start();
// Make globally accessible, for debugging purposes
window.fixer = fixer;
})()