It happens to me on this forum as well although I am curious that Steve reports earlier in this thread that it did not happen to him. The only difference I know of is that he uses Windows and I use OSX.

I believe this is related to the problem of using the title bar to drag the popup window around. Am I right in assuming that when you try that on your site the window jumps down the screen? We believe this to be a jQuery UI issue but are still looking hard at it to see if we can pin it down.

oh.. never tried doing that before but yes, that happens to me too. I’m using Windows 7

nope. works fine for me.  but that is consistent with this issue. almost random per user when it occurs.  referring to the original post issue, not the dragging popup…  this is scrolling (not moving) the list and being able to use it..

Its never happened to me on any site I have visited… worked through with about 3 users that had it occurring for some users but fine for others…

Andy, if that (scrolling and right clicking) happens for you now, its our first opportunity to debug anything…  still might be jquery ui related, but its clearly different from the dragging issue…

its happened to so few users (less than half dozen) that at this point, the best work around has been to change the popup to a new fixed page load then do the right click load in another page to any items in there….

Try this Steve – in this strict order…

1. Open the new posts popup. You will need enough posts in there so it scrolls.
2. Select the first item on the list – in other words do NOT scroll. Right click so it opens in a new tab.
3. Now scroll to the end and right click on the last item in the list.

For me that will now NOT load the page request AND will reset the popup list to the top every time. very repeatable.

Yellow Swordfish said
For me that will now NOT load the page request AND will reset the popup list to the top every time. very repeatable.

I just want to add that this happens not only to a few users, but to ALL users at my forum that tried above procedur explained by Andy. Which was the reason i implemented Steves suggestion and changed the popup to a new fixed page load.

However the popup is really neat and it would be nice having it back.

If anyone is reading this thread for which this problem does NOT occur then we would very much appreciate hearing from you and inspecting your site…

This is even worse now…. now i cant even click on something once

Could you try an experiment for me? In your WordPress theme CSS file could you add somewhere – perhaps near the top –

html, body {position: relative}

and see of that helps at all?

that does not help

Also, the not being able to click on anything seems to have been a temp glitch, that resolved itself before I tried this… so back to where we were last time I posted.

Oh well – it was worth a try. I believe that should fix the dragging of the window issue. I wil take a look to see if WordPress will be updated any of the jQuery components in the next round.

Given we haven’t been able to resolve this issue can you help me set it up so the list opens in a window rather than popup – I need more info than provided up-thread, where do I add the code exactly?

I am going to ask you to hold off. I have been working on this today as it happens and I believe I may be onto a solution. Just need another couple of hours or so…

Even better, thanks

PS is your newest member a spammer or a glitch?

its a display name glitch…  wp is allowing some strange characters in display name…  already an open ticket to handle…

interested myself to see what Andy has on the jquery ui issue…

The problem is in the tooltip – which is a jQuery plugin and clearly needs updating in some way. It is giving some people a problem when using Windows 8 and IE10.

Could you try this dsmall edit please to a code file. The file in question is: /simple-press/forum/content/sp-list-view-functions.php

The function to edit is sp_ListTopicName()

Find this line of code:

$out = "<div class='$tagClass'><a class='$linkClass vtip' href='$spThisListTopic->topic_permalink' id='$tagId' title='$toolTip'>".sp_truncate($spThisListTopic->topic_name, $truncate)."</a></div>n";

and remove the vtip reference along with the preceding space so it now looks like

$out = "<div class='$tagClass'><a class='$linkClass' href='$spThisListTopic->topic_permalink' id='$tagId' title='$toolTip'>".sp_truncate($spThisListTopic->topic_name, $truncate)."</a></div>n";

and see if that solves it for you…