Page-up/down disabled when editing post text

  • After an upgrade to 4.0, I realized the page-up/page-down keys don’t work anymore when editing the text of a post. On long posts that span more than a page, the new feature that automatically expands the text box appears to be the culprit. The keys work normally if the focus is outside the text box, but if the focus is in the text-edit box (e.g. there is a blinking insertion point cursor or text highlighted in focus) then the page-up/page-down keys do not move the cursor nor scroll the page.

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  • It still works for me… With a very long post, when the cursor is blinking in the post content, using the arrow down key makes the text scroll as well as the page. It’s possible one of your plugins is causing the issue for you?

    You can turn off the new-style editor, if you like. In your post editing screen, click on Screen Options at the top right, and uncheck “Expand the editor to match the window height.”

    Thread Starter jolshefsky

    (@jolshefsky)

    Yes, the arrow keys work fine. It’s the “page up” and “page down” keys don’t. This will typically move the cursor past the bottom of the presently viewed page to the line of text which, when it re-displays at the bottom of the page causes the previous last line on the page to appear as the first line of the new display.

    Also, for what it’s worth, this is on Mac OSX 10.6.8 with FireFox 32.0.2.

    PgUp/PdDn also still works for me. However I’m on Windows, perhaps that may make a difference.

    Thread Starter jolshefsky

    (@jolshefsky)

    Unchecking “Expand the editor to match the window height” restores the page-up/page-down keys. It would be weird if this were a Mac-specific thing … I’m accustomed to things like Alt-key mappings, but the page keys, really?

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