Browser issue Unable To Scroll While Typing/Editing On Text Editors [Android]

[Divvens]

Multiple users report being unable to scroll up on the editor when they type a long message that triggers the scroll bar.

To Reproduce (reproduced on latest version of Google Chrome, Android 5.1)

• Type a long message in the editor via your phone
• Try to scroll up, it seems stuck and will not scroll to the beginning of the post.

However I think this may be a browser issue, seeing how it recently cropped up?

 

[Martok]

I presume you mean scrolling within the text editor itself? If so, I have tested this here on XenForo using both my phone and tablet (both running Android 5.1.1 and the latest version of Chrome) and I can't reproduce this, I am able to scroll in the text editor as expected.

Can you reproduce this here?

 

[Divvens]

I presume you mean scrolling within the text editor itself? If so, I have tested this here on XenForo using both my phone and tablet (both running Android 5.1.1 and the latest version of Chrome) and I can't reproduce this, I am able to scroll in the text editor as expected.

Can you reproduce this here?

Unable to reproduce it here, I think a styling add-on "Readactor" may be causing the issue, will check.

 

[Divvens]

It seems if the text editor has a border radius this problem is easily reproduced, without the border radius (on editor container) the problem doesn't occur. It isn't the add-on I mentioned above, just if the styling property has border radius it seems to cause this issue.

 

[Paul B]

There is an existing bug report related to scrolling and border radius.

https://xenforo.com/community/threa...dit-too-hard-in-latest-chrome-version.113723/

 

[Mike]

I'm not positive, but I suspect this may be another manifestation of this bug: https://xenforo.com/community/threa...dit-too-hard-in-latest-chrome-version.113723/

The underlying Chrome bug has been upgraded to cover any element: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=597946

It's talking about horizontal scroll, but the triggers sound similar: recent Chrome update and border radius triggering it.

 

[pegasus]

I was wondering about this. I've noticed it when I'm editing templates in the admin area. Can only "scroll" horizontally by placing the cursor inside the text box and using left-arrow, right-arrow or using the mouse to select text. Using Chrome's dev tools if I uncheck the -webkit-border-radius and border-radius properties from the textarea, the scrollbar suddenly becomes usable.

 

[Mike]

It's worth noting that this bug has been fixed in Chrome, though I'm not 100% sure what version it will appear in (likely 52, though 51 is possible). I suspect this will apply to the issue in Android as well.

I'm going to tag this as a browser bug then (which will hopefully go away soon).