A community member is experiencing a strange behavior in a notebook where double-clicking on text sometimes turns it into an "anchor" that snaps the cursor back to that point on further clicks. This also occasionally turns the anchors into links that redirect the cursor to another cell. Refreshing the page resolves the issue, but it only seems to happen in this one notebook. The community member is unsure if they toggled a setting to enable this behavior. Other community members suggest checking if the issue occurs in incognito mode or a different browser, as it could be a browser extension or compatibility issue. After testing in Chrome, the community member believes it is just an issue with the Arc browser they are using, and considers it a "weird gremlin" that they may encounter again in the future.
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 😆
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!
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
