A div node is removed completely (not just suppressed) even with no CSS applied

[jensolafkoch]

Describe the bug

In a page (it is one behind a paywall, German SPIEGEL magazine) there is the following node:

<div data-sara-click-el="body_element" data-area="text" data-pos="56">
<section class="RichText RichText--highlight lg:w-8/12 md:w-10/12 lg:mx-auto md:mx-auto lg:px-24 md:px-24 sm:px-16 break-words word-wrap">
<p><strong>SPIEGEL</strong>: Sehen Sie das nicht etwas zu romantisch? <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/michaela-may-gisela-schneeberger-und-jutta-speidel-keine-lust-auf-omarollen-a-ceb622f1-d33b-4771-93e3-6e461587bd60">Ältere Frauen beklagen sich heute eher darüber, dass sie unsichtbar sind </a>und von der Gesellschaft ausgemustert werden, nicht über eine allzu hohe Nachfrage nach ihrer Lebensweisheit.</p>
</section>
</div>

This div gets completely removed (missing in Inspector view) by Just read as long as the inner tag is present. This is true even with no css applied at all ("empty" theme). Without tag it does work.

To Reproduce
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Expected behavior
Node should not be removed.

Screenshots
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Please complete the following information:

• OS: latest Windows 11
• Browser: latest Firefox dev version
• Version 127.0b9

[ZachSaucier]

Hey Jens, thanks for reaching out.

I'm not seeing anything in Just Read's code that should delete this element... When I try to create a minimal demo it doesn't remove the text in the Just Read view for me. Does it for you?

Do you have any custom domain selectors (the part at the bottom of the Just Read options page) set up?

Additionally, if you can save the page as a .html file and share it with me then I can try to test it that way. You can do that through right clicking then clicking "Save as". Or maybe right clicking, clicking "View Page Source" and copying that over to a file and sharing it.

[jensolafkoch]

Hi Zach, the minimal demo works for me as well. HTML attached, hope this helps. Do you need more? Screenshot of my Just Read settings? I have the hide-segments.css checked – otherwise Just Read doesn’t work at all, at least with this page and my usual CSS – but I haven’t checked other combinations yet. Best, Olaf

[jensolafkoch]

»Eva« von Cat Bohannon_ Warum Frauen für die Evolution wichtiger waren als Männer - DER SPIEGEL.zip

[ZachSaucier]

Thanks! I can recreate the issue using the file you sent: https://zachsaucier.com/test.htm

After spending a few minutes, I'm not immediately seeing an issue or even a difference with other sections. I'll come back to then when I'm less tired.

[ZachSaucier]

After investigation it is because it is being stripped by Readability.js: the new way of auto-selection that Just Read uses.

After going to their GitHub to ask, I found this: mozilla/readability#872

[jensolafkoch]

So probably a bug in Readibility.js? In fact the removed node resembles a lot of other nodes, I hope they will find something :-)

[ZachSaucier]

Yeah.

It's part of the downside of using a third party tool: you inherit some of their bugs

[ZachSaucier]

Looks like it's actually this bug: mozilla/readability#776