[jira] [Created] (WICKET-5383) AutoCompleteTextField not positionned correctly

["Antoine Dupuis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Antoine Dupuis created WICKET-5383:
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             Summary: AutoCompleteTextField not positionned correctly
                 Key: WICKET-5383
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-5383
             Project: Wicket
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: wicket-extensions
    Affects Versions: 6.11.0
            Reporter: Antoine Dupuis
            Priority: Minor


Hello,

I recently upgraded to wicket 6.11.0 because I needed WICKET-5315 to fix a problem with AjaxFormComponentUpdatingBehavior not being properly triggered on an AutoCompleteTextField redrawn via ajax.

However, it seems another fix released in this version, WICKET-5343, is now interfering with the position of the choices list : they are now located a few hundred pixels away from their input.

This behavior is consistent across all major browsers.

I took a quick look at the JavaScript code of this component to check if I could fix this, but honestly I found it far too complex to be edited and maintained without side effects. I had to revert the 6.11.0 code back to the 6.10.0 version to get the input working properly again.

The main problem I see here is that this component is so complex that any change in its code is likely to break it for a few people.

How do you propose to address such issues ?
Furthermore, shouldn't such JavaScript matters be delegated to 3rd party libraries, such as jQuery's position() ?




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