🐛 GovTool PDF Comment Box: Cursor Jumps to End & No Soft Line Breaks

[bosko-m]

Area

Proposal Pillar

Domain

gov.tools

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Context

Community members have reported usability issues with the GovTool PDF comment box. Specifically:

• The cursor automatically jumps to the end of the text when typing and switching focus quickly.
• The comment box does not support soft line breaks, unlike the reply field.
• Users find it difficult to insert text in the middle of an existing comment without cutting and pasting manually.
• The behavior differs from standard HTML text areas, making it harder to compose structured, longer texts.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open GovTool PDF, go to a specific proposal and navigate to a comment box.
2. Attempt to insert text in the middle of an already written comment and make sure you type space twice consecutively
3. Try pressing Shift + Enter to create a soft line break.

Actual behavior

• The cursor jumps to the end of the text when typing space twice consecutively.
• The comment box does not support soft line breaks (Shift + Enter does nothing).
• Users are forced to cut and paste text manually to insert content in the middle of their comment.

Expected behavior

• The cursor should be positioned in a place where clicked when typing space twice consecutively.
• The comment box should allow soft line breaks (Shift + Enter should work as expected).
• Users should be able to insert text in the middle of their comment without extra steps.

Reference of a problem and potential solution to this React behavior: https://medium.com/@spenceraford/cursed-cursor-fixing-cursor-jump-in-react-inputs-262906d389aa