Re: [Semediawiki-user] Textarea snapping to top (was no subject)

[Misty De M. <Mis...@br...>]

Hi, Yaron,
 
Yes, this is Our Brant again.
 
I am having this problem across multiple browsers - I tested with
Firefox 3 (my main browser) and IE7. The main form where this is
happening right now is the "Edit Memory" form
(http://ourbrant.wikia.com/wiki/Form:Memory); I've left off on altering
textarea size in the other forms for the moment. An example of a long
page exhibiting this article is the interview with Jackie Remus,
editable here:
http://ourbrant.wikia.com/index.php?title=Jackie_Remus&action=formedit
 
Thanks,

Misty De Meo 
Digitization Assistant 
County of Brant Public Library, Paris Branch 
12 William St, Paris, ON 
519-442-2433 

 

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From: Yaron Koren [mailto:ya...@gm...] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:00 PM
To: Misty De Meo
Cc: semediawiki-user
Subject: Re: [Semediawiki-user] (no subject)



Hi, 

I assume you're talking about this wiki:
http://ourbrant.wikia.com/wiki/Our_Brant

I would guess that this is actually some CSS problem on Wikia; however,
I just tried to duplicate the problem on some forms on that wiki, and
couldn't do it. Can you point to a specific form-edit URL where this
problem happens? And does it happen across all browsers?

-Yaron


On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Misty De Meo <Mis...@br...>
wrote:


   Hi,
   
   I'm administrating a wiki which uses Semantic Forms for creating
   pages.
   Since users are submitting fairly extensive amounts of text, I have
   changed the rowcount for the textarea field to 40 rows. However, I'm
   having some strange behaviour - when users scroll down and enter
   text,
   the textarea automatically snaps back up to the very top as soon as
   they
   begin typing. This makes it very difficult to type or edit any text
   that
   is longer than the field row size. I haven't had this problem when
   using
   the default number of rows, but that produces a very cramped space.
   Here's the relevant code from the form:
   
   {{{for template|Textarea memory}}}
   {| class="formtable"
   ! Enter your story here:
   | {{{field|Story|input
   type=textarea|rows=40|maxlength=60000|mandatory}}}
   |}
   {{{end template}}}
   
   Story is a property of type text, so textarea is the default input
   type
   for it. The large maxlength was chosen to allow for very long
   contributions, though the current longest pages use around 30,000
   characters.
   
   This wiki is hosted on Wikia, which is using a significantly outdated
   version of Semantic Forms (1.5.1), and an SVN 1.5 build of SMW. It's
   possible that this is a bug which was fixed awhile ago, but I wanted
   to
   check.
   
   Thanks,
   
   Misty De Meo
   Digitization Assistant
   County of Brant Public Library, Paris Branch
   12 William St, Paris, ON
   519-442-2433
   
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