remy/jsbin — Issue #108: Cursor Behaves Erratically When Screen Resized
Author: Tacomamama
Created: 2011-12-05 05:14:13+00:00
State: open

I taught a web design class to 3rd-5th graders last week. The school is using Internet Explorer 8 (unfortunately there is a great deal of red tape involved in any upgrade and no other browsers can be installed) on Windows 7.

Many of the jsbin files developed a bug after a while, in which the cursor would appear below the actual line we were typing on. It seemed to be related to resizing the code side of the window to a narrow width, but did not completely resolve itself by widening the window.

In addition, in any file that had developed this bug the cursor could no longer be moved into text that had been copied. This seems to persist even when the file is cloned or opened on another computer using a different browser.

I am currently seeing it in this cloned student file:
http://jsbin.com/eruxac/3/edit

Size the code side of the window down to about 200px. Try to move the cursor inside the paragraph that starts with "Hi I'm Name Withheld," by clicking inside the paragraph and you should hopefully see the same thing. When the window is widened again to 900px or more, it is possible to click inside of the text, in Chrome. In IE8 the behavior was more erratic.

Unrelated, but I don't know what I would have done without a tool like this. Working around all the IT restrictions on school district computers is brutal. Thank you for such an excellent free resource.