BUG: Cursor disappearing in notes

octavabasso · February 17, 2012

I recently re-installed Zotero in Firefox (3.0.3) and Standalone (3.0.2) in Linux Mint 11 on a Mactel 64bit computer. For some reason, now when I hit "enter" in a note, the cursor disappears. As soon as I start typing, it reappears on the new line. If I click anywhere on the note, the cursor appears on the previous line. And, if I paste in a chunk of text, the note window doesn't scroll to the bottom. I have to scroll manually. This is a small bug but it's really, really annoying.

octavabasso · March 9, 2012

To add to this buggy behavior, now very often the cursor in the note is jumping to the beginning of the note. As soon as I start typing, say at the bottom of the note, the typed text appears at the top. This is very, very frustrating.

dstillman · March 9, 2012

To add to this buggy behavior, now very often the cursor in the note is jumping to the beginning of the note.

Does this happen with auto-sync disabled in the Sync pane of the preferences?

Does it happen in a separate note window and/or in the right-hand pane?

Does it happen in both Firefox and Standalone? If just the former, does it happen with other extensions disabled?

Does it happen in all collections or just some?

octavabasso · March 9, 2012

Thanks for following up, Dan.

I will work on these problems and see if I can't replicate the bug in these settings. This may take some time...

octavabasso · March 9, 2012

Ok, so not as long as I thought. First of all, this bug report can be closed.

The behavior was limited to Zotero standalone. The reason was because I altered extensions.zotero.note.css in Z Standalone's about:config file. I included the line "br {display: none}" in an attempt to get rid of <br /> tags when copying and pasting from PDFs.

Doing this made for some weird behavior, including what I describe above and one instance where the cursor started justifying right!

I've deleted the line and the note is behaving as normal.

(On a side note, is there a way to target and eliminate (ie, display:none) specific HTML tags? This could help clean up material cut and pasted from PDFs.