Why does the Confluence Doc keep jumping to random places while scrolling?

rzw3ch
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July 7, 2023

Does anyone know the reason while reading a confluence document the page will randomly jump to another part of the page? It is crazy to me that I have to continue scrolling back to what was being read before.

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timo January 29, 2025

@rzw3ch Facing the same issue here. It is annoying and gets worse the longer my article gets. Checking a few answers here and in other threads gave me the idea to delete the table of content that I put on the very top of my article.

This solved the issue. Seems like while typing confluence is trying to be helpful and updating the TOC, as a result making editing a different kind of annoying.

As a workaround, for now, I am going to delete the TOC when I need to edit an existing article and add it back in before I save 

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Rilwan Ahmed
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July 18, 2023

Hi @rzw3ch ,

Welcome to the community !!

Please check if there is any redirection/HMTL macro added on the page. 

Confluence admins/space admins/ Page creators can check

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Barbara Szczesniak
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July 10, 2023

@rzw3ch I noticed this last week when editing a few pages in Confluence Cloud. I would scroll down on the page, and it would then jump back to the top before I could place my cursor where I wanted to write. I had not experienced this before (have been writing steadily in Confluence for more than 3 months), so I just thought it was to do with the issues Atlassian was experiencing last week. 

Since I'm on Cloud and you're on Server, I don't know if we're seeing the same thing. If we are, it is probably not due to the issues, since I believe they were only related to Cloud. 

I will pay attention to see if this happens today and try to note any circumstances when it occurs.

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Sayed Bares [ServiceRocket]
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July 9, 2023

@rzw3ch welcome to the community!

Have you clicked on hyperlinks by any chance? what version of Confluence you are using? Is this issue reproducible by other users in your organization?

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July 9, 2023

Haven't clicked on many links, but I have a fair few Jira tickets linked to the page.

Confluence Version: 

Yes, this seems to be a common behavior people experience

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July 15, 2023

@rzw3ch is the issue reproducible with different browsers? or it is specific to a certain browser?

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