If you hover with a mouse pointer, over where autocomplete suggestions will show up, and then type; the autocomplete suggestion will become a link (or at least visually become underlined, and therefore look like a link).

This is extremely minor, however when it first happened to me, it seemed a bit confusing. I thought I'd mention it anyway for the sake of completeness.

Note for Windows users: The attached video is QuickTime (.mov), however it also plays in VLC for people who don't want to download QuickTime for Windows. I didn't have a converter, so apologies for any inconvenience playing the video.

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Issue tags: +epam-contrib-2019.03
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We looked at this issue during DrupalCon 2019.

We discovered that the behavior is due to focus vs hover styling. Technically your mouse is still hovering on the element, even if the focus changes. You can also reproduce the bug if you hover over one autocomplete option, and use the keyboard arrow keys to switch focus to other elements.

We think a solution would be to turn off the hover pseudo-class for the autocomplete elements. Something like $('#elementName').off('hover')

We were unsure where to place a solution like this. We looked at /core/modules/field_ui/field_ui.js as a possibility, and ran into the js contributer workflow (https://www.drupal.org/node/2815083).

This may seem like a small issue, but it seems like a can of worms. We discussed if philosophically keeping the hover would be correct (technically the user is still hovering on the element), but looking at the amazon.com dropdowns, they don't have the issue of hover vs focus styling (and we know they've spent a lot of money on UX development).

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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
Issue tags: -autocomplete, -styling +Bug Smash Initiative

Thank you for reporting this and the analysis in #8.

I tried to reproduce this following the steps in the IS and the provided movie. Using a clean Umami install on OSX using Chrome in the Claro theme, I could not reproduce this any more.

Is this still an issue for somebody? Is this OS/Browser/theme specific maybe? Or does this seem to be solved?

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I could not reproduce this with any of the current core themes (Claro, Olivero, Stark, Umami).

The video provided in the issue summary suggests this is not a Drupal core issue

  • From the typeface/color in the video example, it does not look like a core theme is in use.
  • The video also shows that matching characters within the autocomplete results are colored different. Drupal's built in Autocomplete does not do this, so this is either a modified version of Drupal's autocomplete or a different autocomplete altogether. The problem reported could be caused by those modifications (or different library)

This is something that can be addressed if we're provided steps to reproduce on a site that uses only themes + modules provided by Drupal core.

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@CatsFromStonehenge Thank you for reporting this problem. We rely on issue reports like this one to resolve bugs and improve Drupal core.

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