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TempestNathan

Posted Jun 08, 2013 in: Problems with typing in tags
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I think what's happening is that if you accidentally move the mouse cursor off of the text entry box it disappears. Fairly frequently I'm finding I'll click on the tag, let go of the mouse to hit backspace and type in a new tag, then find that I'm on a different page because I moved the cursor slightly while letting go of the mouse.

I'd love it if the tag entry box didn't disappear until the user either hits Enter or actually clicks outside, as opposed to just moving the mouse cursor out.

Edit: Ah, or even trickier: click in the text box and select the text of the tags you want to delete. I've found I instinctively select right to left since there's more blank space in the text box on the right side, so it's easiest to select the entire tags that way. Once it's all selected, let go of mouse to hit backspace with right hand and go to type in new tags. Since you had the mouse button down to select, even if you moused out of the field, it won't disappear, so sometimes this will work fine. However, once you let go of the mouse button, if the mouse moves even one pixel it will trigger the mouseout event and the box will disappear. Hence frustrating, seemingly random behavior (until I figured this out).


This message was edited Jun 08, 2013.
TempestNathan

Posted Jun 08, 2013 in: Problems with typing in tags
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I'm having the same issue. I don't think it's an accidental click or a browser plugin. Specifically what happens is this:

You click on the tag field, and the existing tag is highlighted by default (by ToodleDo) for ease of editing. However, the browser does not realize you are editing a text field at this point, so it takes backspace as a page navigation. If you first explicitly click IN the tag box, then hit backspace, it works. But it's *very* easy to forget to do this when you see the text highlighted for you, and is inconvenient regardless since you need to click, then re-highlight, then backspace.

The workaround is to use the Delete key instead of backspace, but it's easy to forget to do that too!

(This is in the latest release version of Firefox.)

Edit: I can't seem to reproduce this now, so maybe it's dependent on some specific circumstances, or maybe I was totally mistaken and it was actually just what I describe below:


This message was edited Jun 08, 2013.