Finicky/missing scrollbar when editing article

Finicky/missing scrollbar when editing article

Closed
Feature
Articles & Templates
Reported by
firebrat
Opened
Assigned to
Syarx

Description

When editing an article, sometimes the main field gives me a scrollbar and sometimes it doesn't, and whether it shows up or not seems to possibly depend on how exactly I got to the article. (Having a scrollbar is an accessibility issue for me, especially when editing long articles.)

Steps to Reproduce

For instance: if I click on a link to an article through the "Continue Working" list, no scrollbar shows up on the main editing field. However, if I go to the Search function first, and click into editing the article through there, the field does show up with a scrollbar.   It's potentially not quite as cut-and-dry as this, as it sometimes feels like I need to do more clicking around to get it to finally work, but at least going by my most recent attempts to figure out what prompts the scrollbar to show up and what doesn't, the above method was working for me.

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Comments and updates to this report

katerinach Developer
Assigned syarx
0nnia Moderator

Hello there! Can you please let us know which editor you are using?

firebrat
How can I tell that exactly? I feel like it changes depending on how exactly I get to an editing page, so I get very confused about this. For instance, if I click on an article from the "continue working" list, I can see "athena" in the url, and the scrollbar is missing in this case. If I go back and hit search instead, and click on an article from the search list, "desktop" is in the url, and and the scrollbar is *not* missing in that case.
Syarx Assignee
When you say the main field I assume you mean the main text field(the description of an article)?
If so you mean to say that this text field sometimes has a maximum height if the text is long enough and after that it gets a scrollbar and sometimes the text field is as long as the text and the whole article edit window gets a scrollbar ?
firebrat
Sorry it has taken me to long to reply, July got crazy with an emergency.
Explaining things is hard, so I hope it's okay to use images to help. Example 1 and Example 2 When I use the search function, it sends me to the "desktop" version of the url, and in that version, there is a scrollbar that lets me scroll up and down through the text I've written. When I just click on the article straight from the list instead of using the search function, it sends me to the "athena" version, and in that one, there is no scrollbar that lets me move up and down through text easily. There's only the scrollbar that is tied to the stuff outside of the text editing field, and so only scooches the screen up and down a little bit. I hope this makes what I was trying to explain more clear.
Syarx Assignee
The scrollbar might not be showing but it is there, you can scroll and also if you want resize the size of the editor
Syarx Assignee
We can arrange a task to make sure it is displayed in the future, but for now I will be closing this bug
Syarx Assignee
set this bug to closed
firebrat
I'm really confused when you say that the scrollbar is there, because it's not. There is nothing to grab. Resizing the editor in Athena does not make the scrollbar appear. The only way to move down through text in the editing screen is to press the button on my keyboard and wait for the cursor to page down through the text manually. For me, there is simply no scrollbar there, no matter where I click. I really do hope you can make a change to make it always visible, because right now I have to finagle things around to make sure it's in desktop mode before I can work on long articles that I need to be able to scroll through.
Syarx Assignee
What do you mean by desktop mode, the screenshot you sent are from desktop.
What I want to mean is you can also scroll with mousewheel with the editor focused, or two finger swipe on laptop touchpad or touchscreen.
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