I don’t recommend removing this functionality, especially on pages when the stream can be quite long.
Rather than remove it, could I change it? The function seems to be operating in reverse logic. By this I mean that, when a user hits the ‘reply’ button, the page scrolls so that the comment box is at the top of the page (leaving the original comment/post above the browser bar and out of sight). I would like the comment box to scroll to the bottom of the page (if that makes sense).
Keep in mind there are threaded comments in the streams.
So let’s say you have 3 top level replies, and inside the 2nd there are a number of nested comments. The comment form will appear under the 2nd top level item and below the 3rd.
It’s quite verbose but that’s why there is scrolling. Sometimes the form just appears in locations off the screen.
When you see the nested comments in practice you’ll get it why the scrolling is in place.
It’s really not bad, I understand why you want it in place but there’s stuff that happens further down the road that makes it practical.
Thanks for your continued help @studiocrafted.
I’m not sure what you’re implying. Here’s a video with nested comments in practice, and you can see my constant desire to scroll back upwards so that I can re-read the message that I’m replying to. The downwards scrolling is almost a distraction, and may lead users to forget what they were going to say?
So in the video you can see the form appears under the current nest you are in.
If you reply to nested comment 1 of 5 for example the form is still going to be below all 5.
How do you propose the user gets there? A hard page jump?
You are using a theme that seems to make the position of the scroll not look accurate. Normally it will hook into the right element and go straight to the form.
I have no problem with the form position, as you highland in your first 2 sentences. It’s just that the auto-scroll rolls the page into a position that seems odd. I like the auto-scroll, I just wish it rather scrolled to a point where the form was at the bottom of the page rather than the top.
I’ve turned off the theme, and the action persists, so I believe that’s a trait of Buddypress?
Yeah the scrolling is BuddyPress. The theme position just looked a bit off in the video, I’d ignore my comment on that if the position is fine.
It does seem odd, but that’s the nature of nested comments. I’d prefer like you the default action went through a single form and not a different form for every nest.
There is a work around, I’d do it as a custom solution for you as I really need the money and do this on a professional basis.
It does seem odd, but that’s the nature of nested comments. I’d prefer like you the default action went through a single form and not a different form for every nest.
Whilst that’s not the issue in question, I do agree – that would be good. But my primary concern is the Buddypress scroll position :-/
Inherently with the default functionality of BuddyPress, page scroll or not. The comment reply will always appear under the current nest.
Are we on the same page @studiocrafted or am I overlooking what you’re suggesting? I have no issue with the comment reply position, which appears under the nest. I do have an issue with the scrolling though
How do I remove the activity scroll when a user clicks on reply? I just want the user to click on the reply button and for the textarea to just open but not scroll the page down to the reply.. I just want it to open in place.
It wont open in place. It never will. It can’t. It’s not built like that.
Remove the scroll and it still wont open in place.
You may feel it opens in place on single threaded comments but when there is any more than 1 comment you will begin to see that form is always under the last of those, in a nest or not.
That’s why I have said this.
It does seem odd, but that’s the nature of nested comments. I’d prefer like you the default action went through a single form and not a different form for every nest.
I still don’t follow, sorry @studiocrafted haha! I understand that my original request cannot be done, which is why my following question was if it is possible to change the scroll direction or amount? Surely that’s possible?
Thanks for trying to break it down ha!
