A user of mine complained about the following behavior in JIRA (6.3.15). Here are the steps to reproduce:
- Create JIRA Issue
- Add a number of comments so that you have to scroll to the bottom to see all the comments
- Go to the bottom of the page and add a comment
- Scroll to the top of the page and choose Assign to me or the pen icon to change the current Assignee
At this point you will be scrolled to the bottom of the page. My theory on this bug is that after entering a new comment to an issue that has a lot of comments you'll notice a blue bar on the left hand side indicating that the focus is on this comment. You can move the mouse up and down the other comments and they also will show this blue bar, but the blue bar on the last comment indicates input focus. Thus when you scroll to the top of the page and do Assign to me or click on the pen, you're signaling that you want to do input (perhaps type the person's name). But the input focus is at the bottom of the page so you get sent to the bottom of the page.
Another odd thing is that in our dev instance which is also on 6.3.15, this doesn't happen. I felt good that when I updated our production instance that this problem would go away. It hasn't!
Tested on Windows 7 on
- Chrome Version 43.0.2327.5 dev-m (64-bit)
- Firefox Version 35.1.0
- IE 11.0.9600.17633
All of them fail in the same way. Has anybody else seen this? Is there a fix?
