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[Android] Tapping selectable text inside a ScrollView can cause the ScrollView to jump to the top under some circumstances #33419
Description
Description
After selectable text inside a ScrollView has been touched in a way that neither creates a selection nor scrolls the ScrollView, certain interactions cause the ScrollView to scroll to the top.
(I'm not sure exactly what set of events are necessary to trigger the jump, but I have a text unloading algorithm that consistently causes it. The issue may be specific to large or nested Texts, and may have to do with content changing as the result of a scroll event? Changing the content of the text in a setInterval didn't seem to be enough to cause it, so I just copied the unloading algorithm out of my codebase.)
As a workaround, updating the key prop on the selectable text component seems to clear the glitched state.
Version
0.67.3 (originally observed on 0.64.1)
Output of npx react-native info
info Fetching system and libraries information...
System:
OS: Windows 10 10.0.22000
CPU: (12) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 3.72 GB / 15.76 GB
Binaries:
Node: 17.7.1 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
Yarn: 1.22.5 - C:\Program Files (x86)\Yarn\bin\yarn.CMD
npm: 8.5.2 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
Watchman: Not Found
SDKs:
Android SDK: Not Found
Windows SDK: Not Found
IDEs:
Android Studio: Not Found
Visual Studio: 16.10.31402.337 (Visual Studio Community 2019), 15.9.28307.1033 (Visual Studio Community 2017)
Languages:
Java: 1.8.0_282 - C:\Program Files\OpenJDK\openjdk-8u282-b08\bin\javac.EXE
npmPackages:
@react-native-community/cli: Not Found
react: 17.0.2 => 17.0.2
react-native: 0.67.3 => 0.67.3
react-native-windows: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
*react-native*: Not Found
Steps to reproduce
- Run the Snack below on an Android device (Snack's provided one or your own).
- Scroll up and down; observe that scrolling works as expected.
- Tap on the text without starting a selection or scrolling. (Tapping to cancel a selection works.)
- Try scrolling again; observe that the scroll jumps to the top now.
Snack, code example, screenshot, or link to a repository
https://snack.expo.dev/b2Vgmc_4L
Set USE_WORKAROUND to true to see the workaround in action (this breaks the ability to actually select text, but if you need to use this in production, you can use https://github.com/artemiswkearney/react-native-selectable-text to add an onSelectionStart handler where you cancel running the workaround)
Activity
suwu150 commentedon Apr 12, 2022
i hava this problem too. is there a solutltion ?
github-actions commentedon Oct 14, 2022
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artemiswkearney commentedon Oct 14, 2022
react3-moon commentedon Jan 24, 2023
@artemiswkearney any solution for this ?
artemiswkearney commentedon Jan 24, 2023
github-actions commentedon Mar 13, 2024
This issue is stale because it has been open 180 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 7 days.
artemiswkearney commentedon Mar 20, 2024
mikenoriega commentedon Feb 14, 2025
I have the same issue with a TextInput
leaftail1880 commentedon Mar 18, 2025
Happens to me too
FrederickEngelhardt commentedon Apr 17, 2025
Make sure to add
removeClippedSubViews={false}this will prevent optimization preventing text selection even for views on screen...it should be a bug though since these views are on screen and it breaks even in small lists.This does not happen with scroll view but using scrollview . Do it only for Android though and consider pagination. This will break list performance efficiencies.
Maybe Shopify Flashlist works. 🤔
I'm able to reproduce this issue on a react native 0.74.5 (expo go) project.
Add `scrollsChildToFocus` prop to ScrollView to control automatic scr…