"Search the Store" incredibly annoying

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Gingerbread Conductor 27 Sep @ 6:22pm

Every single time I open any store page the search bar auto-fills with "Search the Store" and I can't do anything until I get rid of it. Annoying and I hope it isn't happening to everyone.

Edit: I wasn't clear. The placeholder text starts a search which keeps me from doing anything until I clear it. This isn't an aesthetics thing -- it genuinely gets in the way of me using the site.

Last edited by Gingerbread Conductor; 28 Sep @ 4:13am

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Ben Lubar 27 Sep @ 6:35pm

That's called placeholder text. It's not actually there. If you type something, it'll go away.

cSg|mc-Hotsauce 27 Sep @ 7:25pm

Originally posted by Gingerbread Conductor:
"Search the Store" incredibly annoying

Every single time I open any store page the search bar auto-fills with "Search the Store" and I can't do anything until I get rid of it. Annoying and I hope it isn't happening to everyone.

It always had that there. It's just not dimmed out anymore.

Ben Lubar 27 Sep @ 7:42pm

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:
Originally posted by Gingerbread Conductor:
"Search the Store" incredibly annoying

Every single time I open any store page the search bar auto-fills with "Search the Store" and I can't do anything until I get rid of it. Annoying and I hope it isn't happening to everyone.

It always had that there. It's just not dimmed out anymore.

:nkCool:

I remember back before web browsers supported placeholder text when websites tried to emulate it with JavaScript with varying degrees of brokenness...

Gingerbread Conductor 28 Sep @ 4:17am

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:
That's called placeholder text. It's not actually there. If you type something, it'll go away.

Thanks. I've updated my post to explain why this is a problem. It doesn't just fill in the blank, it starts a search which I have to get rid of in order to use the site. It wastes time and forces a specific action.

13119205187913161 28 Sep @ 5:15am

Originally posted by Gingerbread Conductor:
Originally posted by Ben Lubar:
That's called placeholder text. It's not actually there. If you type something, it'll go away.

Thanks. I've updated my post to explain why this is a problem. It doesn't just fill in the blank, it starts a search which I have to get rid of in order to use the site. It wastes time and forces a specific action.

curious what you mean by this

i just checked on my store pages and nothing like that is happening to me

the text is there

but no auto search or need to clear it

Gingerbread Conductor 28 Sep @ 5:30am

Originally posted by 13119205187913161:
Originally posted by Gingerbread Conductor:

Thanks. I've updated my post to explain why this is a problem. It doesn't just fill in the blank, it starts a search which I have to get rid of in order to use the site. It wastes time and forces a specific action.

curious what you mean by this

i just checked on my store pages and nothing like that is happening to me

the text is there

but no auto search or need to clear it

This might help.
https://imgur.com/a/LgBBUG6
The three red dot icon is from LastPass. It doesn't do anything like this elsewhere.

Gingerbread Conductor 28 Sep @ 5:40am

I just flushed cached data + cookies. No change.

Ben Lubar 28 Sep @ 5:49am

Originally posted by Gingerbread Conductor:
Originally posted by 13119205187913161:

curious what you mean by this

i just checked on my store pages and nothing like that is happening to me

the text is there

but no auto search or need to clear it

This might help.
https://imgur.com/a/LgBBUG6
The three red dot icon is from LastPass. It doesn't do anything like this elsewhere.

See if you can get LastPass to stop injecting itself into the page, even just temporarily, and see if that makes the problem go away.

Gingerbread Conductor 28 Sep @ 6:50am

Logged out of LastPass and problem stopped. Logged back in, problem back again.

13119205187913161 28 Sep @ 10:10am

i do not use any password managers so i cannot say for sure what they do or not

but i had to actually type in

"search the store"

to see what you had there (minus the hamburger)

so it seems like it is filling it in somehow

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