Vijbot Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 My members have pointed out a huge issue with linking to a post in topics. It also seems to be happening on these forums. Linking to the post will not place the user to the correct location on the page. example intended link to post: Link expected result: actual result: This is repeatable and seemingly will give different results and only sometimes will link directly to the post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Stridgen Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 Are you ensuring you are clicking the link at the top of the embed, and not the one in the middle? Only the link at the top links to the direct post. What is in the middle is what you are replying to (the topic), so does indeed lead to the top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vijbot Posted February 18, 2022 Author Share Posted February 18, 2022 We're clicking on the share button under the ellipses button next to the post. Sorry I don't mean to say we want to see it embedded but rather if we link to it it should go to the comment. When clicking on the link the first time or in a private browser session it does indeed go to the comment, however if the person has already been on the page or refreshes that page it would displace it. I think this may have to do with lazy load images? https://efgxt.net/topic/52-suggestion-box/?do=findComment&comment=2223&_rid=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim M Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 18 minutes ago, Vijbot said: We're clicking on the share button under the ellipses button next to the post. Sorry I don't mean to say we want to see it embedded but rather if we link to it it should go to the comment. When clicking on the link the first time or in a private browser session it does indeed go to the comment, however if the person has already been on the page or refreshes that page it would displace it. I think this may have to do with lazy load images? https://efgxt.net/topic/52-suggestion-box/?do=findComment&comment=2223&_rid=1 When going to the shared URL, I going to a post from Aaron44126. If there are images on the page, the browser anchor will bring you to where the anchor is (which is correct) but then the image(s) load and could change that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vijbot Posted February 18, 2022 Author Share Posted February 18, 2022 Correct, we've since disabled lazy load media as its not required for our community however this issue is still appearing. So the odd thing is, the link to that post does work as intended, but when you click on the link he provides in his post it will have the undesired effect of linking to a seemingly random part of the page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim M Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 What browser is being used here? It is working as intended here in Chrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vijbot Posted February 18, 2022 Author Share Posted February 18, 2022 (edited) This issue is seemingly browser agnostic. I've been able to reproduce this in Firefox 97 and Chromium 98. If the user has never been to the page before it will work as intended for the very first time. If they scroll around after clicking that link then go back to that post through a link it will scroll to the part of the page they were previously instead of the intended location (the linked post) I've attached a screen-capture of what I'm describing Edited February 18, 2022 by Vijbot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim M Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 Unfortunately, in actual Chrome I cannot reproduce this. Keep in mind that Chromium is not the production release of Chrome and typically includes things which will give you a different user experience. While I do see a little oddity in Firefox, we are using native anchors here. I have tagged a dev to verify what you're seeing is indeed a browser issue rather than a code issue on our end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vijbot Posted February 18, 2022 Author Share Posted February 18, 2022 Thank you for the quick replies and looking into this for me. I can confirm the same happens in actual chrome on windows, I'd rather not make another video however I can if you would like. I'm getting the exact same result. Chrome does indeed seem to behave "better" than firefox, but the issue remains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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