Clicking the margin sends me to the top of the editor

[rguessford]

And really it's not just the margin, it's anywhere in the document where the cursor is an arrow and not a text-input-cursor-that-kinda-looks-like-a-capital-i.

And it's not really to the actual top either, the cursor gets put before/after a random image I inserted into the article, near the top.

Anyway, it's very annoying. Why would I want, if I happen to miss clicking the text input area (spacing between paragraphs/header space/etc also send me to the top) to be taken away from what I wanted to click on? is there something I'm missing that I can do to prevent this behaviour?

[Charles Daigle]

I am having the same frustrating issue. As is likely true for most end users of Confluence, I unfortunately cannot do the second of Jason U's debugging steps as I don't have admin access. Here are the result of the first and third:

1. I can't find the exact page you're looking for, but I can see we have the version 8.5.16. Again, I cannot control the versioning of this, but if this is a known bug in this version that makes sense.

3. No JS errors appear when cursor jumps. However, there are a ton of "DEPRECATED" warnings in the console that appear on page load.

FYI: I cannot report a bug through the support, because it requires me to post a URL to the Confluence space. This is not allowed by my company, as we use an internally hosted Confluence instance. This is definitely a major flaw in the bug report process.

While I appreciate the help @Jason U , I will word this as respectfully as I can: why are you asking us for detailled debugging to fix this problem? The list you came up with of steps for us to try would be a great thing to forward to the development team instead of relying on end users to report back if they worked. My request is that instead of relying on users to debug this issue, the development team should replicate and fix this.

Thank you!

[Jason U]

That does sound frustrating — and you’re right, this isn’t expected behavior.

Since you mentioned this happens in Confluence Data Center, this issue might be related to how the editor handles focus events when clicking outside the text input area.
In some versions, clicking in the page margin or between elements (like images or tables) can trigger a misplaced focus, causing the editor to jump to the top of the content.

Here’s what you can try:

1. Check your Confluence version
   Go to ⚙️ → General Configuration → System Information and confirm the exact build.
   Some older 8.x versions (especially 8.4–8.7) had similar focus-handling issues that were patched later.

2. Try disabling collaborative editing (temporarily)
   Under Admin → Collaborative editing, toggle it off and test again.
   If the issue disappears, it’s tied to the synchronization layer in the editor.

3. Browser console check
   Open the browser DevTools (F12 → Console) and see if any JavaScript errors appear when the cursor jumps — this can help identify whether it’s a frontend bug.

[Tomas Farkas]

I have the same issue but cant change anything on Admin. 

Every time I click somewhere around the text - but NOT PRECISELY into the text - and I am in edit mode - the whole document JUMPS at the begging seemingly randomly into a place where an image is inserted. 

It drives me super crazy. 

The only thing I managed to debug is that it happens where the cursor changes to a small arrow. So if the cursor icon is the edit shape (i.e. I am pointing into text) then it is fine. 
But the actual change of edit (place) is exactly about NOT clicking into a middle of a text, typically (thats the muscle memory) when you want to move the cursor into a middle of two paragraphs then you point into that blank space and suddenly the whole page jumps away. Super frustrating. I hate it. 

[Justin Fernandes]

i tried "disabling collaborative editing"

it did not fix the issue.