901460 - Code view should jump to the element where the User is clicking in display

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webmaker Graveyard :: Thimble, defect)

Description

[Laura Hilliger [:epilepticrabbit]]

STR:

Load a somewhat complex make into thimble (e.g. one with lots of HTML like:  https://thimble.webmaker.org/project/6065/edit )

Do not scroll on the Code view
Scroll on the display view and click somewhere towards the bottom.

EXPECTED: Code view jumps to the element where the user clicked and highlights it, thereby allowing the user to see what the HTML looks like for a particular element
ACTUAL: Code view jumps seemingly randomly. If it IS highlighting the proper element, the user can't see it and has to scroll down in the code, thereby removing their mouse from the display view, so the element is no longer highlighted.

Seen in FF, Chrome & Safari

Comment 1

[Pomax]

This has been disabled in preparation of thimble-with-scripts landing. Once that lands, overloading the page that's being written with onclick behaviour will end up causing conflicts with the javascript the user may be using.