Last modified: 2013-10-23 14:37:25 UTC
Unlike other Wikimedia projects, in Wikidata, items are selected when placing mouse pointer over a dropdown suggestion (for example dropdown suggestions from Search box). Let me explain the problem. 1. I want to search something in wikidata for example "Mathematics". 2. I clicked on the search box (Assume the mouse pointer is just below the Search text box) 3. I Started to type mathematics, some search suggestions appears in the dropdown. After a pause I continued typing, but before that, some of the search suggestions from the dropdown automatically enters into the text box and resulted with the text "Mathe, Dame d'Albretmatics" in the text box. It is noticed that the problem is there on every dropdown lists in Wikidata. I have tested some other Wikimedia projects but the problem is only at Wikidata.
I can confirm this in Firefox 18 (item under mouse pointer gets selected immediately when using the search field in the upper corner). It does not happen in Google Chrome 28, only gets selected after moving the mouse pointer.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/89159/ Also refers to http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Paper_cuts#Mouseover_over_input_suggestions_messes_up_input Retaining autocomplete highlighting will be fixed on bug 44896.
