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Textarea jumps on typing in mobile wikitext editor on Android
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Description

Editing on Android Nexus has become much more jarring recently. When typing the editor jumps around as demonstrated in this gif:

editor.gif (646×422 px, 287 KB)

Sometimes the text I am editing is not even visible on the screen.
This bug has resulted in me abandoning various edits.

Device information:
Android 6.0.1
Nexus 5

Event Timeline

Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Textarea jumps on typing in default mobile editor to Textarea jumps on typing in mobile wikitext editor on Android.Aug 16 2016, 7:09 PM
Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.
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Yeah, this is irritating, and seems specific to Android; I can't replicate on iOS. Possibly it's related to T129360: Virtual keyboard hides the text in iOS mobile wikitext editing?