Cursor jumps to the end while typing in a text input box

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Hi power apps experts,

I have been experiencing a strange and irritating issue with my app. I have a simple textinput box.
There is a lot of text in this box.

Sometimes, when I am typing text in the first line of textbox. While typing, the cursor jumps to the end of line and I am suddenly typing at the end of line.
This happens multiple times during a day. It always jumps to the end of line.

I have tried placing the text input control in a form, out of a form, changed browser, I am simply not able to fix this issue.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks.

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zmansuri 6,048 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Does it happen when you press Tab? or Automatically?

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StalinPonnusamy Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi @SearchingYT

Is it happening for all textbox controls?
Do you have any event SetFocus(text control) from other control?
Any Onchange event for that textbox control?

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SearchingYT 107 on at

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@zmansuri It happens automatically.

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StalinPonnusamy Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi @SearchingYT

Just curiosity, Can you create a new app, place few controls and test this? Just to eliminate is this behavior global or to a specific app or Specific screen?

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@StalinPonnusamy
- No, only 1 on textbox. Other textbox are small with very little text. Its only this text box that contains a lot of text, where I spend more time typing and experience this issue.
- Nope, no setfocus event
- Yes I have onchange patch. But I have tried removing onchange and using the textinput box in a form instead, still facing the same issue. So, onchange doesn't seem to be the issue. And, the cursor jumps while I am still typing, so onchange is not triggered at that point.

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StalinPonnusamy Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi @SearchingYT

Is the control enabled for "Edit Multi-line text" on Control Type? In this example "Issue Description" is enabled for multi-line text.

Not able to attach image somehow
Select the form
Click Edit fields
Check the text control (Control Type)

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SearchingYT 107 on at

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Hi @StalinPonnusamy
The control is just a textinput box. It is not in a form.
It is patched to the datasource.
Yes, it is has multiline mode.

I believe this is a limitation of textinput control when working with large amounts of text? I am not sure...

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StalinPonnusamy Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi @SearchingYT

Max size for the text controls

A single line of text: Max 4,000 text characters
Multiple lines of text : Max 1,048,576 text characters

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rknott 4 on at

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I am experiencing this same exact problem. Interested to see if others are struggling with this and if there is a resolution.

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Any news about this subject? I encounter the same problem with a large text field in a form.

It happens in dev and published mode. And it happens in different browsers.
I tried to put the form with just that text field in an empty screen.
I also tried to recreate the screen and to delete the field and create it again without success.

I would be really grateful if Microsoft could solve this bug.

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