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Creating a link after scrolling moves text in VE edit window unpredictably
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  1. Edit a long article with VE, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_insects?veaction=edit
  1. Scroll down a screenful, let's say so that the section header "Fossils" is visible at the top of the editing window.
  1. Double-click on a word near the top of the editing window, let's say the word "wings" in the first line of the "Fossils" section
  1. Hit Ctrl-K in order to create a link.

Result: Visual Editor will scroll the text spuriously, which is unnecessary and irritating.

I'm using Chrome 41 on Windows 7.

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AxelBoldt created this task.Apr 7 2015, 10:25 PM
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TheDJ subscribed.Apr 10 2015, 11:28 AM

I was able to confirm this in my Safari. Interestingly enough, it only does it the very first time.

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AxelBoldt added a comment.Apr 10 2015, 2:02 PM

If you close the first link inspector window, scroll down another screenful, and create a new link, the spurious scrolling will happen again. The effect is bigger if your new link is near the top of the edit window.

Etonkovidova subscribed.Apr 10 2015, 5:57 PM

It's confirmed in Chrome/FF(Mac) production and 1.26wmf1 (rMW4a3d85da4e3c).

I also noticed that spurious scroll up during one of the User research sessions( in betalabs).

Yes, it happens only once in one place - trying to insert link for the same word multiple times will give scroll-up effect only once. But if you move to another section of the page, it happens again - that scrolling up moves the page so far up that the inserted link is not visible anymore.

Etonkovidova triaged this task as Medium priority.Apr 10 2015, 5:57 PM
AxelBoldt renamed this task from Spurious scrolling when creating links at the top of the screen in long articles to Creating a link after scrolling moves text in VE edit window unpredictably.Apr 10 2015, 6:17 PM
Etonkovidova added a comment.Apr 13 2015, 11:16 PM

The issue is still reproducible in beta.

AxelBoldt added a comment.Apr 16 2015, 5:40 PM

I cannot reproduce the issue anymore with the current version of VE installed on Wikipedia [0.1.0 (685e7ff) 12:17, 8 April 2015].

AxelBoldt closed this task as Resolved.Apr 16 2015, 5:41 PM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to FY 18-19 Q3/Q4 on the VisualEditor board.Apr 17 2015, 11:50 PM
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