When entering posts on the forums, occassionally the backspace key will randomly jump up in the post - typically somewhere in the first third of the first line, though sometimes elsewhere in the post.
It still backspaces as it should, but wherever the cursor lands, not where it was when I was typing.
This is annoying in Chrome on my desktop(win8), but it's extremely bad when I'm on my Android phone, where it happens both in Chrome and Dolphin - because when my keyboard autocorrects, it does so by quickly backspacing the word then replacing it with the autocorrected version.
This, of course, means typically half way through a word being replaced, the cursor will jump up elsewhere in the post, delete a couple more letters, and insert the new word. This has been a problem for some time, and it's very, very annoying.
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Problems With Forum Editor Across Multiple Browsers
Started by Wintersdark, Aug 13 2013 09:05 AM
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Posted 13 August 2013 - 12:30 PM
I have the exact same problem. Using italics seems to trigger it with both IE10 and Chrome on my desktop. My android phone is almost unusable for posting-- once the cursor jumps to a random location there doesn't seem to be a way to reset it without reloading the window.
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Posted 13 August 2013 - 01:05 PM
Yes, I get this all the time drives me nuts.
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Posted 13 August 2013 - 02:11 PM
replication:
start typing.
enable bold/italic etc
type something in bold/italic
disable bold italic
continue typing in normal
hit backspace
cursor goes to end of italic/bold section
start typing.
enable bold/italic etc
type something in bold/italic
disable bold italic
continue typing in normal
hit backspace
cursor goes to end of italic/bold section
#5
Posted 13 August 2013 - 05:00 PM
evilC, on 13 August 2013 - 02:11 PM, said:
replication:
start typing.
enable bold/italic etc
type something in bold/italic
disable bold italic
continue typing in normal
hit backspace
cursor goes to end of italic/bold section
start typing.
enable bold/italic etc
type something in bold/italic
disable bold italic
continue typing in normal
hit backspace
cursor goes to end of italic/bold section
This will reliably replicate it, but it will happen sometimes even if you disabled the rich text editor entirely. Extremely frustrating.
#6
Posted 17 August 2013 - 04:12 PM
Other issues:
On my mobile device (read: android phone, with Dolphin, stock Android browser or Chrome) I'm unable to scroll the contents of the editor text box. This means that once the post is long enough to extend past the bottom of the editor, I'm unable to move the cursor to the end of the post.
If the backspace issue pops the cursor up to the top of the post, then, I'm unable to actually continue editing the post.
Or, hell, if I just need to edit something up higher in the post, or accidentally hide my keyboard, or any number of other things.
Please, please fix the forum editor. Please.
On my mobile device (read: android phone, with Dolphin, stock Android browser or Chrome) I'm unable to scroll the contents of the editor text box. This means that once the post is long enough to extend past the bottom of the editor, I'm unable to move the cursor to the end of the post.
If the backspace issue pops the cursor up to the top of the post, then, I'm unable to actually continue editing the post.
Or, hell, if I just need to edit something up higher in the post, or accidentally hide my keyboard, or any number of other things.
Please, please fix the forum editor. Please.
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