964189 - On screen mobile keyboard is hiding the HTML textarea when in focus

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Keyboards and IME, defect)

Description

[cam.wernic]

Attachment: testbasic.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131205075310

Steps to reproduce:

I have a cheap Huawei Y210 smartphone (1GHz, 140MB RAM) running Android 2.3.6. It has the latest Firefox Mobile on it from the Google Play store. I'm trying to get a very basic webpage going which has a textarea on it. I have attached a test case.


Actual results:

Whenever I click into the textarea on the screen to enter text, the onscreen keyboard makes all the rendered HTML disappear off the screen and you can't see what is being typed (very frustrating).


Expected results:

It only appears to be happening on Firefox mobile. The inbuilt Android browser works fine. What I expect should happen is you can click in the text area, the cursor appears in the text area and you can type on the keyboard and see the text at the same time.

I have also tried a faster device Huawei Y320 (dual core 1.3GHz, 512MB RAM) running Android 4.2.2 and same version of Firefox. This also works fine. I think it may either be a problem with Firefox and this particular Android version.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Is this a duplicate of bug 878375?

Comment 2

[Sorina Florean [:sflorean]]

Closing this bug as worksforme since we do not have Firefox for Android 2.3.6 and because is not reproducible on Nexus 5(Android 6.0.1) and HTC 10(Android 8.1.0).