How to prevent jumping to first element that matches selector?

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Norm6257 October 28, 2022 at 2:40 pm

Hi,

Scenario: I’m in MT viewing an element on a long page, about 2/3 of the way down. I want to see the effects of modifying the css for the selector and see what it looks like on that element.

Behavior: When I edit a selector rule in MT, it then jumps the viewed page to the first element that matches the rule, which could be at the very top of the page. I then have to scroll the page all the way down again to try and find the element that I want to observe.

Question: Is there a way to stop MT from automatically scrolling to the first element that matches the selector? I’ve looked in preferences, but I don’t see an option.

Thanks,
-Norm

Sebastian October 28, 2022 at 3:56 pm

Hey Norm,

If turning off targeting mode off (bottom right) or element highlighting (top toolbar) doesn’t disable Microthemer’s scrolling to elements, then it should, and I will update MT accordingly.

Cheers,
Sebastian

Norm6257 October 28, 2022 at 5:00 pm

Thanks Sebastian. I have both highlighting and targeting disabled and it still seems to jump.

Question: Could you make this a separate preferences setting? There are many times when I’m inspecting a page and I just want to stay right where I’m at. Even when I turn on targeting, my preference is to stay where I’m at rather than become disoriented when the page jumps to an area that I’m not focusing on.

-Norm

Sebastian November 1, 2022 at 7:43 pm

Hey Norm,

Thanks for your suggestion. I’ve just added a new preference for turning off auto-scroll in version 7.1.5.9.

Set “Auto-scroll to the current element, if out of view” to “No“.

Let me know how you get on with it switched off. If there are times when you miss it, I could look a less binary solution – adding logic to refine when it should or shouldn’t happen. It would also be good to know if you don’t miss it at all.

Cheers!
Sebastian

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