Focus input text field on Esc

Focus the first visible input text field when you press Esc key, or restore the previously focused element on second press

As of 2018-05-22. See the latest version.

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// ==UserScript==
// @name          Focus input text field on Esc
// @description   Focus the first visible input text field when you press Esc key, or restore the previously focused element on second press
// @version       1.0.5
// @include       *
// @author        wOxxOm
// @namespace     wOxxOm.scripts
// @license       MIT License
// @run-at        document-start
// ==/UserScript==

var TEXT_FIELD = ' search text number url ';
var previousElement;
var scrollPos;
var first;

document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {
	if (e.keyCode != 27 || e.altKey || e.ctrlKey || e.shiftKey || e.metaKey)
		return;
	// find text inputs inside visible DOM containers
	var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input');
	for (var i=0, input, il=inputs.length; i<il && (input=inputs[i]); i++) {
		var priority = TEXT_FIELD.indexOf(' '+input.type+' ');
		if (priority >= 0) {
			var n=input, style;
			while (n && n.style && (style=getComputedStyle(n)) && style.display!='none' && style.visibility!='hidden')
				n = n.parentNode;
			if (!n || !n.style) {
				if (!first // set the first OR if it's empty, try to select an identically named input field with some text (happens on some sites)
						|| (input.value && input.name == first.name && (!input.form && !first.form || input.form.action == first.form.action))) {
					first = input;
					if (first.value)
						break;
				}
			}
		}
	}

	if (first) {
		if (first != document.activeElement) {
			// switch to the found input field
			previousElement = document.activeElement;
            scrollPos = [scrollX, scrollY];
			onkeyup(function(){
				first.focus();
				first.select();
			});
		} else if (previousElement) {
			// restore focus to the element from which we jumped to an input field previously
			onkeyup(function(){
				document.activeElement.blur(); // in case document.body (page "background") was previously selected
				previousElement.focus();
                scrollTo(scrollPos[0], scrollPos[1]);
			});
		}
	}

	// focusing should be done at key-up to prevent the Esc-keydown being also chain-handled by the just focused element
	function onkeyup(cb) {
		document.addEventListener('keyup', function keyup(e) {
			if (e.keyCode == 27) {
				document.removeEventListener('keyup', keyup);
				cb(e);
			}
		});
	}
});