[WICKET-5383] AutoCompleteTextField not positionned correctly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 6.11.0
• Component/s: wicket-extensions
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Antoine Dupuis
• Created: 01/Oct/13 16:25
• Updated: 08/Oct/13 09:23
• Resolved: 08/Oct/13 09:23

Description

Hello,

I recently upgraded to wicket 6.11.0 because I needed WICKET-5315 to fix a problem with AjaxFormComponentUpdatingBehavior not being properly triggered on an AutoCompleteTextField redrawn via ajax.

However, it seems another fix released in this version, WICKET-5343, is now interfering with the position of the choices list : they are now located a few hundred pixels away from their input.

This behavior is consistent across all major browsers.

I took a quick look at the JavaScript code of this component to check if I could fix this, but honestly I found it far too complex to be edited and maintained without side effects. I had to revert the 6.11.0 code back to the 6.10.0 version to get the input working properly again.

The main problem I see here is that this component is so complex that any change in its code is likely to break it for a few people.

How do you propose to address this issue ?
Shouldn't such JavaScript matters be delegated to 3rd party libraries, such as jQuery UI position() ?

Issue Links

• duplicates: WICKET-5378 AutoCompleteTextField inside a ModalWindow shows auto complete dropdown in the wrong location