Irritant Scrolling up on the forum

Guardian2003 · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:59 am

As far as I know, the fix posted in this thread resolves the issue i.e. either add a large value for the textarea COLS attribute OR alter the width attribute so it uses a fixed pixel width not a percentage width.
This issue also affects PM module as well as Forums but I'm not sure if the 'fix' was rolled out to RN or not.
I'm just about to leave the house so maybe someone can check Mantis for that for you.

unicornio · Involved Joined: Aug 13, 2009 Posts: 432

As far as I know I didn't see any fix for the PM module but the most funny is Mozzilla didn't care about this issue and IE8 was too sensitive for this little problem. I wonder why FF3.6 ignore this kind of issue like nothing happens. hmmm. This is really not clear for me.

spasticdonkey · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:46 pm

The fix was applied in the last version, although I can't say for sure we corrected the PM templates or not. It was a last minute before the release fix Smile

Quote:

If you have a textarea with the width set to a percentage (or PX and have not set height as well) and you have more than enough text in the textarea to cause it to scroll then the bug can occur while you type text. While you are typing text the textarea will scroll up a few lines for each character you type. The same happens while you delete any text. This bug CANNOT ALWAYS be fixed by activating compatibility view

sample fix
find

Code:

<textarea name="message" rows="15" cols="35" style="width:450px" tabindex="3" class="post" onselect="storeCaret(this);" onclick="storeCaret(this);" onkeyup="storeCaret(this);">{MESSAGE}</textarea>

change to

Code:

<textarea name="message" rows="15" cols="30" style="width:450px;height:300px;" tabindex="3" class="post" onselect="storeCaret(this);" onclick="storeCaret(this);" onkeyup="storeCaret(this);">{MESSAGE}</textarea>

Are you using RN distro themes? If so which one? As far as I know FF 3.6 never had this issue... Are you referring to the FF 3.6 cache problem?

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Palbin · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:50 pm

If it is stock RN please reproduce it on the demo site and report back.

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I have a feeling it is a custom theme issue. I think there is way to force your users into compatibility mode, but I do not know what it is.

Raven · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:07 pm

If you Google for IE8 force your users into compatibility mode you may discover a/the solution Wink

unicornio · Involved Joined: Aug 13, 2009 Posts: 432

Maybe rending mode

1. adding this meta tag:

Code:

or adding this to .htaccess

Code:

Header set X-UA-Compatible IE=EmulateIE7