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VisualEditor: Copying text causes browser to scroll to the top of the page and move the cursor to the top in Safari
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Description

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open a long page in Safari 6.2 (maybe others?)
  1. Scroll down a ways and select some text.
  1. Copy (Command-C) that text.

Results:

After a brief delay (one second?), the page scrolls all the way to the top. The cursor is located at the very beginning of the page. (The text is correctly copied.)

Version: unspecified
Severity: minor
See Also: T74390: VisualEditor: Pasting in text containing a tab character causes VE to scroll to the top

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bz71728

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Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:50 AM
• bzimport added projects: Browser-Support-Apple-Safari, VE-deploy-nextup, VisualEditor-ContentEditable.
• bzimport set Reference to bz71728.
• Whatamidoing-WMF created this task.Oct 7 2014, 3:02 AM
Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor.Nov 23 2014, 10:48 PM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to External and Administrivia on the VisualEditor board.Nov 23 2014, 10:59 PM
Jdforrester-WMF removed a project: VE-deploy-nextup.Nov 24 2014, 10:02 PM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from External and Administrivia to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.Jan 15 2015, 12:08 AM
Aklapper mentioned this in T74390: VisualEditor: Pasting in text containing a tab character causes VE to scroll to the top.Mar 4 2015, 4:05 PM
Aklapper updated the task description. (Show Details)
Aklapper set Security to None.
• Whatamidoing-WMF added a project: VisualEditor-CopyPaste.Jul 22 2015, 5:26 PM

Update: As of July 2015, this is still happening in Safari 8.0 on Mac 10.10

However, instead of scrolling all the way to the top of the page, it scrolls until the selected/copied text is at the very bottom of the screen.

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