Firefox scrollbar resets incorrectly - firefox

I've come across a problem in Firefox browser. It's likely a bug, but maybe someone knows a workaround. The problem is demonstrated in the following JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/F5tdB/ This has been tested on Firefox 12.0, 15.0.1, 16.0.1.
To explain it in words... You have to follow this sequence of events:
Get an element with overflow:auto and some overflowing contents, then scroll it a bit;
Hide the element (display: none);
Remove contents
Show the element (it's empty now)
Re-add the same contents (it's scrolled now, just as it was before)
Reset scrollTop/scrollLeft to 0 via Javascript.
As a result, the contents do get scrolled to the proper position, but the scrollbar stays as it was, which is clearly wrong.
Is there any workaround to this short of removing/re-adding the element instead of just hiding it?

In testing I discovered that if you set scrollTop to any value other than 0 (or its current value) then it updates the scrollbar correctly. You can then immediately set scrollTop to 0.
Particularly as you have a test case you should of course file a bug in Bugzilla.

Solution is add the animate method, so use:
function resetScroll(){
$(document).scrollTop(1); // removes the impression of animation
$('html,body').animate({scrollTop:0},'fast','linear');
}

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What would prevent capybara/selenium from hovering over a visible element?

I am writing automation tests for a webpage. I can't share any specific details, so all I'm looking for is some general brain-storming to help me figure out what is causing the problem. A long-shot, I know, but I've become obsessed with this problem.
There is an element with id="troublesome" on the webpage. On manual testing, hovering over #troublesome will cause it to disappear and something else pops up in its place (as it should). I'm trying to verify that the pop-up occurs on hover using automation testing (Capybara, selenium driver, ruby). However, no matter what technique I use, hovering doesn't work.
troublesome is visible upon visiting the page. It is not cut off by screen size. Capybara has no trouble finding it and reading its text and attributes. i.e. A regular ol' find("#troublesome").text will return the correct text.
However, I cannot use Capybara to click on #troublesome without executing javascript.
i.e. find("#troublesome").click won't do anything (it won't throw any errors either). I must use find("#troublesome").execute_script("this.click()") to click on it.
But I don't need to click it. I just need to hover over it.
Using Capybara:
find("#troublesome").hover --> will not work. No errors thrown either. Test just continues until it fails because it fails to find the expected result. Telling ruby to sleep(however_many_seconds) doesn't help.
Using Selenium:
page.driver.browser.action.move_to(find("#troublesome").native).perform --> this doesn't work either. Again, no errors thrown.
Using trigger:
find("#troublesome").trigger(:mouseover) --> doesn't work because selenium driver doesn't support trigger (and I don't want to use another driver).
Using jquery:
Won't work. Website doesn't use jquery
Attempting to use javascript to force :hover to be true on element doesn't work:
mouseHover = 'var x = document.createEvent("MouseEvent");
x.initMouseEvent("mouseover", true, true, window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
document.getElementById("troublesome").dispatchEvent(x);'
page.execute_script(mouseHover)
(I can change mouseOver to click, and it'll click though!)
Apparently, mouseover is not 'trusted' by browser (but click is), so kinda useless to have that as an option, isn't it?
I've tried all of the above by working within a within("#id") do... end block. Doesn't make a difference.
I've even tried unconventional means to get the mouse over #troublesome:
find("#troublesome").right_click --> the mouse will be DIRECTLY over #troublesome, right-click, and a menu will pop up RIGHT OVER the element!!!!!!
So CLEARLY, the mouse IS hovering over #troublesome during my automation test, yet it's not registering on the browser. The website is not bugged. Hovering works when I do it manually.
I can find other elements on the webpage and hover over them just fine. In fact, I've even tried putting the mouse over another element, then moving it from there to #troublesome like so:
page.driver.browser.action.move_to(find("#somethingElse").native, 1200, -50).perform
That doesn't work, but if I adjust the coordinates to a third element just below #somethingElse, this will trigger the third element's hover state, so clearly this strategy can work in principle and practice, yet not for #troublesome!
Note that #somethingElse and the 'third element' exist on a div that is at the same 'heirarchy' as the ancestor div of #troublesome.
There are iframes on the webpage, but #troublesome is not on the iframe.
There are random script tags inserted all over the body of the webpage. I don't know what those script tags are doing as I can't see the code.
#troublesome has become my Moby Dick.
This whale is driving me nuts. I've invested too much time into it already. I can't give up now or all those hours of toil would be for nothing.
Please help.
Thank you.
find("#troublesome").hover
page.driver.browser.action.move_to(find("#troublesome").native).perform
find("#troublesome").trigger(:mouseover)
mouseHover = 'var x = document.createEvent("MouseEvent");
x.initMouseEvent("mouseover", true, true, window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
document.getElementById("myDiv").dispatchEvent(x);'
page.execute_script(mouseHover)
page.driver.browser.action.move_to(find("#somethingElse").native, 1200, -50).perform
No error messages other than standard capybara/rspec failure log because it failed to find the element that was supposed to pop up upon hovering over #troublesome
The problem you're running into is because the '.hoverme' element in your example at https://jsfiddle.net/pwo7zuL2/1/ has a size of 0x0 px (this is also why you couldn't click it). The size is 0x0 because it only contains absolute positioned elements which don't technically count when calculating the auto size of the parent. If instead of attempting to hover over the .hoverme element you hover over the visible absolute positioned child (which actually has size) of the element the hover will work correctly (which is what you are actually doing when you do it manually in your example).
find('#next').hover
I now know the problem, and I have a solution (albeit a hacky one).
The problem is due to an iframe which covers the full screen. This blocks selenium from being able to hover over #troublesome even though #troublesome is not within the iframe and #troublesome's z-index is set to a high number (thereby forcing it to be at the top layer).
Manual hovering works, but hovering with selenium fails. I believe this is a bug, so I have reported it on selenium's github.
One solution that works is to use javascript to force the iframe to shrink, then hover (which should work now), then use javascript to return the iframe to full screen (so as to not affect other aspects of the test).
shrink_frame = 'document.getElementById("#frame").setAttribute("style", "width: 100px; height 100px");'
page.execute_script(shrink_frame)
This is not an ideal solution because it is obviously not how a real user would interact with the webpage, but it's acceptable given that this is due to a selenium bug and that manual testing works.

mix-blend-mode scroll lag issues

Just using 'mix-blend-mode:overlay' on a text element and it causes my browser to scroll really slow while the text is in the screen view. As soon as you scroll past the text item, the scroll goes back to butter smooth.
The lag effect, which affects both chrome and firefox is solved if I remove the mix-blend-mode.
Has anyone else had a similar problem with mix-blend-mode?
Not sure if this will help you in your case, but I had a 'transform: scale(-1);' set on element that had 'mix-blend-mode' enabled. When I removed the transform the performance was silky smooth! So, if you're using any sort of 'transform' I'd remove it and look for an alternative solution if possible.
It may also help if you set 'isolation' property to the layer beneath, as per example here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/mix-blend-mode#HTML_example

Show hide symbol in Adobe Edge

Just trying to get my head around Adobe Edge. What I want to achieve sounds simple but having real trouble. I have a button element, that when mouseover, displays an animated symbol I have.
Currently my code,on the button is Mouseout:
sym.$("pgicatext2").hide();
and mouseover:
sym.$("pgicatext2").show();
This doesn't seem to be working. I can achieve the result if, I turn off the movie symbol, and use this code on the button
sym.$("pgicatext2").toggle();
The trouble is of course it doesn't replay the animation every time you mouse over, and all the while it's hidden it's playing the animation.
I see its been a month since you posted this. Hopefully you solved your issue. Your code for hiding and showing looks right. One thing I have had happen in some of my projects is that I inadvertently placed an object or symbol with 0% opacity on top of a button or something I had a mouse over event. Make sure that the button you have does not have anything layered on top of it. Another thing would be to turn off autoplay of your symbol, and add sym.$("pgicatext2").play(); into your mouse over. I know those are pretty obvious answers, but sometimes it is easy to forget the obvious.
Please get through following steps:
Check if the button is over all other visible layers ('Elements'
tab). Maybe setting cursor to 'pointer' will help to check it.
Use 'Mouseenter' and 'Mouseleave' instead of 'Mouseover' and
'Mouseout'. The difference is explained here.
Make sure that your animated symbols 'autoplay' option is off. If
you did not tick it off while creating the symbol, just set Playback
to 'Stop' on Stage at the very beginning of the timeline
Lets do some coding. Lets assume that your animated symbols name is
"film". You need to set following actions to your button element:
Mouseenter:
sym.$("film").show();
sym.getSymbol("film").play();
this basically shows up your 'film' element and plays 'film' symbol
Mouseleave:
sym.$("film").hide();
sym.getSymbol("film").stop(0);
this one hides your 'film' element and stops 'film' symbol at the beginning of animation (0ms)
Enjoy!

Cluetip popup windows getting cutoff by browser

jQuery('area').cluetip({
sticky: true,
positionBy: 'auto',
width:370,
dropShadow:false,
closePosition: 'top',
closeText: '',
activation: 'click'
}
Straight to the point: when i click to activate popup windows, it's always at the right handside of where i click, even when there is not enough space. So for those it only shows some part to the cluetip as the rest is getting cutt off by browser window??
I am totally new to php and cluetip...
About the only thing that can be done, by the looks of things, is use the positionBy parameter. But it doesn't work really in determining if the tip is cutoff, I have tried many cases myself.
The options are auto, mouse, bottomTop, fixed, but none of them work really, they all get cut off.
The only solution I found myself was to use fixed and set top and left manually and always have it in the same place.
j('.areaH').cluetip({
positionBy: 'fixed',
topOffset: 200,
leftOffset: 100
});
Unfortunately though you are stuck at that place holder. I guess you could take the action and to each thing that calls a cluetip call a wait segment of 1 second then re-position the cluetip window using jQuery.
This would be in an onHover event set off by the thing that calls the cluetip separately. But that's about it. I have tested this myself on FF and Chrome and in both it cuts off.
http://plugins.learningjquery.com/cluetip/#features
In the onHover event you can always use another jQuery plugin that waits for an element to exist then re-position, what you can do is in each element have your own attr that has the new position, or just call the elements left and top position using jQuery and move the Cluetip window to that +20 in each direction.

jScrollPane in Firefox - Dragger fills entire bar and doesn't scroll

My jScrollPane (division) works well in IE and Chrome. It may be of some significance that I am also running JQuery MouseScroll and hoverintent. Again, these functions work fine in IE and Chrome.
The division is displayed properly in Firefox, as is the vertical scrollbar. There's about 50 lines to scroll down through.
In Firefox, the dragger fills the entire length of the vertical bar and doesn't move. The dragger and the arrows do respond to mouseover, but the functions don't work.
Perhaps the scrolling action is functional, just that there is no space to scroll, because the dragger fills the entire region. I am unsure whether my jScrollPane works or doesn't in Opera or Safari.
I checked Google and found little directly associated advice, just to:
"Ensure that the division has a height specified (it does) and to try refreshing (no luck) in case the content (only text) needs to pre-load."
I wonder whether anyone can suggest any checks for me to make from their previous experience before I post any code to wade through.
This is only the second question tagged with jScrollPane & Firefox, so perhaps no-one will be familiar with this 'bug'. In which case I will create and post some reduced code which generates this bug in Firefox but not IE or Chrome.
Update: I created a 'test' scrollbar webpage to see if the bug would be replicated, and that works fine - so no need to post that for error-checking.
The problem must lie somewhere within my code on the site I'm working on.
So far I have identified that all the JavaScripts work and my custom jScrollPane CSS is fine. So it's just a process of elimination through each of the stylesheets now. I have a feeling the source of the bug may be in my custom reset CSS.
I'm confident I'll fix the bug, and will let you folks know either way.
The bug was in the CSS reset as suspected. Specifically, with the rule for column-count.
I had defined them (moz-/wekbit-/column-count) as '1' instead of the defining as 'auto' / not defining it at all.
This was from when I was experimenting with (CSS3) multi-column text. Presumably jScrollPane requires multiple columns. Not enough support yet for multi-column text to be worth implementing yet IMO.

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