Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):
- Go to the lbwiki article "Florent de Berlaymont" (or any other article with formatting that spans multiple lines)
- Click on "Edit article"
- Scroll down until you reach a point, where the beginning of a formatted text segment isn't visible on screen.
What happens?:
The text on-screen is formatted as if the formatting tokens of the text off-screen doesn't exist. E.g. if a text segment is enclosed between [ ... ] and '' ... '', but the leading [ and the leading '' aren't visible on the phone screen, the text segment isn't formatted as a link and as italics; on the other hand, the text that follows the closing '' is formatted as italics.
What should have happened instead?:
The text's formatting should be independent of what portion of the text is currently visible on-screen. E.g. if a text segment is enclosed between [ ... ] and '' ... '', it should be formatted as a link and as italics; the text that follows the closing '' should obviously no longer be formatted as italics.
Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
Wikipedia android app version 2.7.50517-r-2025-01-21
Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):
In the two screenshots below, one can see that the formatting depends on what formatting tokens are visible on-screen. This should not be the case.

