Weird intra-cell linking/focus behavior
On a notebook I created recently, I started running into a weird behavior where double-clicking on text (e.g., to highlight that word) sometimes (not always?) seems to turn that text element into an "anchor" (double quotes because I made that up - not sure what to call it). Once that's happened, any further clicks in that cell will automatically snap the cursor back to the "anchor" point. It seems to also occasionally turn those points into links (if the anchor is defined in another cell), where clicking any instance of the anchor in that cell will snap the cursor to the definition of the anchor text (e.g., some other cell).
Refreshing the page seems to clear this behavior, and so far it only seems to be this one notebook - has anyone else seen similar behavior? Did I toggle a setting that enabled this and just didn't notice doing so?
Apologies if this seems dumb; I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. The workaround (refreshing the page) is an inconvienence, but not enough to drive me back to Jupyter 😆
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where do you double-click this text? is it in the output or code editor?
does this happen in incognito or another browser (it could be a browser extension)
Hey Myles! In the code editor, not the output. I will check incognito and Chrome. I currently use Arc, so I'll see if it's just a weird browser incompatibility issue. I appreciate the help!
Let me know about another browser - if its just in arc, i can download Arc and give it a try
Yep - sorry for the delay. I'm testing chrome now. I have yet to nail down exactly what causes the behavior. It doesn't happen on every double click.
Based on fifteen minutes of trying to replicate it in Chrome, I think it's just an arc thing, and I think I just got unlucky. If I see this again in another notebook in the near future, I'll bring it up, but in the meantime I think this was just a weird gremlin