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Get your browser view space back

By Marco on Tue Apr 10 20181 min readtips & tricks

Ever wonder where all your precious view space went on websites like Medium and Hackernoon? On your average full HD display, your reading experience looks somewhat like this:

Take a look at all the distractive elements hindering your reading experience

Thankfully, this can easily be fixed. Simply create a bookmark with the following code and place it in your bookmarks bar:

javascript:(function(){var i,elements=document.querySelectorAll('body *');for(i=0;i<elements.length;i++){if(getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position==='fixed'){elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]);}}})();

The following code searches for all the HTML elements that have a style attribute "position:fixed", and removes these elements. If you want the elements back, simply reload the page.

Credits to a HackerNews comment I read sometime ago.

Screenshot of the same article as above after applying the above code snippet. Much better.

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