Automatic positioning of cursor in Subject field

Automatic positioning of cursor in Subject field

by Joseph Rézeau -
Number of replies: 5
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I've just noticed that, since moodle.org has been using version 1.8, when posting forum messages, the cursor is automatically positioned in the Subject field.

This is fine when you are posting a new discussion topic, since it makes it clear that you have to type a Subject for your message before proceeding to typing the text of your message.

However, when you are replying to a discussion topic, that automatic positioning is not a good thing. Normally you do not want to change the Subject of that discussion, you JUST want to type your Message text immediately. Before I noticed this new behavior (1.8 version), I did not understand why, after clicking in the HTML editor and starting to type the text of my reply message, after I had typed a few letters or words, the cusor unexpectedly moved to the Subject field and I was now typing the rest of my message in that field.angry

Have you noticed this? Does it bother you too? If so, you can vote for bug report MDL-8882.

Joseph

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Re: Automatic positioning of cursor in Subject field

by Joseph Rézeau -
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Bump.
Looks like not so many people are disturbed by this cursor positioning (it must be me sad). If you are, you can still vote for bug report MDL-8882.
Joseph
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Re: Automatic positioning of cursor in Subject field

by Ray Lawrence -
Hi Joseph,

On a test site the cursor was at the end of the text in the subject field. When I clicked in the HTML editor and started typing it stayed there.

When replying here the cursor was not in the subject field. In fact I had to position the cursor n either field or text area to commence typing.

Firefox 2.something on XP.


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Re: Automatic positioning of cursor in Subject field

by Ray Lawrence -

Same in IE 6. perhaps it's been fixed in the last couple of days.

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Re: Automatic positioning of cursor in Subject field

by Joseph Rézeau -
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Hi Ray, you are quite right. On this forum it seems to be working the way I want it to now.approve
Thanks,
Joseph