stacker.news/components/preserve-scroll.js
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auto show: Use textarea as the anchor element if available (#2407)
* enhance: use textarea as the anchor element if available

* correct only downwards vertical layout shifts
2025-08-09 15:35:48 -05:00

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export default function preserveScroll (callback) {
// preserve the actual scroll position
const scrollTop = window.scrollY
// if the scroll position is at the top, we don't need to preserve it, just call the callback
if (scrollTop <= 0) {
callback()
return
}
// check if a ref element is in the viewport
const isElementInViewport = (element) => {
if (!element?.getBoundingClientRect) return false
const rect = element.getBoundingClientRect()
return (
rect.bottom > 0 &&
rect.right > 0 &&
rect.top < window.innerHeight &&
rect.left < window.innerWidth
)
}
// pick a textarea element to use as anchor ref, if any
const selectTextarea = () => {
// pick the focused textarea, if any
const active = document.activeElement
if (active && active.tagName === 'TEXTAREA' && isElementInViewport(active)) {
return active
}
// if no textarea is focused, check if there are any in the viewport
const textareas = document.querySelectorAll('textarea')
for (const textarea of textareas) {
if (isElementInViewport(textarea)) {
return textarea
}
}
return null
}
// if no textarea is found, use the center of the viewport as fallback anchor
const anchorRef = selectTextarea() || document.elementFromPoint(window.innerWidth / 2, window.innerHeight / 2)
const refTop = anchorRef ? anchorRef.getBoundingClientRect().top + scrollTop : scrollTop
// observe the document for changes in height
const observer = new window.MutationObserver(() => {
cleanup()
// double rAF to ensure the DOM is updated - textareas are rendered on the next tick
window.requestAnimationFrame(() => {
window.requestAnimationFrame(() => {
if (!anchorRef) return
// get the new position of the anchor ref along with the new scroll position
const newRefTop = anchorRef ? anchorRef.getBoundingClientRect().top + window.scrollY : window.scrollY
// has the anchor ref moved?
const refMoved = newRefTop - refTop
// if the anchor ref moved, we need to scroll to the new position
if (refMoved > 0) {
window.scrollTo({
// some browsers don't respond well to fractional scroll position, so we round up the new position to the nearest integer
top: scrollTop + Math.ceil(refMoved),
behavior: 'instant'
})
}
})
})
})
const timeout = setTimeout(() => cleanup(), 1000) // fallback
function cleanup () {
clearTimeout(timeout)
observer.disconnect()
}
observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true })
callback()
}