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Search field in SDL Community moves to far right of browser window when typing text

Marion Kämpfer

When I start typing text in the Search field of SDL Community, the field moves to the far right of the browser window and is overlapped by both the top banner and the right scrollbar. It is thus difficult to read the text typed to the search field. See image attachedScreenshot showing the SDL Community search field shifted to the right, overlapping with the top banner and right scrollbar in Mozilla Firefox browser.

I'm using Mozilla Firefox 62.0.3 (64-Bit).

I suppose this is a bug?

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[edited by: Trados AI at 3:40 AM (GMT 0) on 5 Mar 2024]
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  • 0 in reply to Silviu Avram (former member)
    Hi Silviu,
    thank you for testing the issue.
    Since nobody seems to be able to reproduce the bug (my colleagues can't either) and since I am using a laptop connected to a docking station and two external screens, I thought that this might be the cause and tested what happens when I disconnect the laptop from the docking station and the screens but the issue remains the same :-(
    As the bug is still occuring and I have no idea in what direction to look, a call might be a good idea.
    Best regards,
    Marion
  • 0 in reply to Silviu Avram (former member)
    Hi there,

    just got the information about this nasty little bug and as a developer of web projects I just could not resist to investigate this one ...
    It turns out, I was not able to reproduce the bug on multiple machines either, but decided to do a check on the associated events of the form element (using the standard Firefox or Chrome Utils CTLR+Q ...) which pointed me in the right direction. An "onClick" event is registered via JQuery. Looking at the code, I only found a very tiny function which was about devices using a touch screen.
    To confirm I fired up my laptop (runnig Xubuntu) which features a touchscreen, something do not use regularly. But for this time it was really worth it: Open up the page and click in the field and the strange behavior shows.

    Interestingly, the bug does not surface when using the page on a mobile phone (I just tried my personal One plus One with a 5.5 Inch Display) as in this case a completely different, responsive layout is used. I think you will have to fiddle around with the combination of a large screen that features a touch interface. Just as a side note: This happens to be the case for many of the current Lenovo and DELL Laptops in the business series.

    Good look and have fun hunting down this bug.
  • 0 in reply to Kai Schlachter
    Thank you Kai for looking into this. Indeed, I am using a Dell Latitude 5490 laptop and it seems to have a touchscreen functionality, which I was not aware of...