TEXTAREAs scroll by themselves (on IE8) every time you type one character
- by Justin Grant
IE8 has a known bug (per connect.microsoft.com) where typing or pasting text into a TEXTAREA element will cause the textarea to scroll by itself. This is hugely annoying and shows up in many community sites, including Wikipedia. The repro is this:
open the HTML below with IE8 (or use any long page on wikipedia which will exhibit the same problem…