Can we disable floating comment text field?

Michel Topuzoglu
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September 18, 2024

Hello, 

We noticed today that the comment text field when viewing an issue is now floating and attached to the bottom of the screen.

Some of our users aren't fond of that change, is there a setting available to users or to admins to revert to the previous behavior of the comment text field?

Thank you!

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Scott Mitchell November 7, 2024

Just like with the rather obnoxiously screen filling right side bar you can use a javascript applet to fix this annoyance as well until Atlassian decides to finally fix it themselves.

After saving this as a bookmark and running it, you can get the comment section back by changing between comments and history, or another tab at the bottom.

 

javascript:(() => document.querySelector('[data-testid="issue.activity.comment"]').hidden ^= !0 )(); 
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Tansu Akdeniz
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September 18, 2024

Hi @Michel Topuzoglu 

Welcome to the community.

For server, there is an open ticket awaits on Atlassian: Allow User to Enable/Disable Sticky Comment on Client Side  and this is the workaround:

Go to https://<your domain>/secure/admin/SiteDarkFeatures!default.jspa and enter "com.atlassian.jira.commentStickyFooter.disabled" to the text box and click "Add".

For cloud, I don't think there is a solution. You can contact Atlassian support via http://support.atlassian.com.

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September 18, 2024

Hi @Michel Topuzoglu -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Yes, and...

There have been several community posts in the last few months to remove (or allow disable) of this new feature as it was being experimented upon customers.  The suggestions were to contact the support team to disable the experiment for your site.

As it appears to now be generally released that may no longer be possible.  Here are a couple of suggestions to make the behavior configurable for Jira Cloud:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-84449
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-84439

Kind regards,
Bill

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