Cursor positioning does not work on mobile

[hiphigi]

Tested on Galaxy S3, S4, and S5 (and Note 3) and iPhone 5c.

When clicking the Bold, Italics, etc. button, the *** or * is inserted respectively, but your cursor is not placed between them like it is when you're on a desktop browser.

In other words, when you click the bold button on mobile, you then have to manually move your cursor between the asterisks to create bold text.

[AlanSydney]

I am facing the same issue in Samsung Galaxy Note 5.

[Hum4n01d]

Same on iPhone 5S and 6S

[Coffee2CodeNL]

This is still happening, as well as having to tap space twice.

[bennett-jacob]

Possibly the same, on older mobile browsers (I tested on Android) the cursor doesn't stay in place when deleting (backspacing). It jumps around and the removed data pops back.

[TangentFoxy]

@jacobkdick Having the exact same issue on modern (latest version of Chrome) mobile browsers, has been that way for a long time.

[Coffee2CodeNL]

@Guard13007 this is abandonware, sadly

[TangentFoxy]

@iSDP Well that further supports the notion that I was thinking I need to move on and find a better solution. I was going to say as such but decided to hold my tongue in the hope of improvement.

[TheCDC]

I am having this issue in 2018.

This is the textarea element I'm trying to edit with SimpleMDE

<textarea name="contents" id="contents" class="form-control entry_editor" rows="15"> </textarea>

These are my script tags, which are after the textarea element.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/simplemde/latest/simplemde.min.css">
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/simplemde/latest/simplemde.min.js"></script>
<script>

            <!-- Start simple MDE -->

    var simplemde = new SimpleMDE({
        element: document.getElementById("contents"),
        styleSelectedText: false,
        <!--spell checker might be the culprit of editing glitches on mobile-->
        spellChecker: false,
    });

</script>

When editing on mobile cursor placement by tapping works but typing causes the cursor to jump to a seemingly random location while copying recently typed characters and pasting them at the cursor's current location.

Text highlighted by the spellchecker becomes duplicated when tapped.

[saschasommer]

Had the same issue. Switching to the EasyMDE fork solved the mobile issues for me: https://github.com/Ionaru/simplemde-markdown-editor

[lefuturiste]

@Coffee2CodeNL What do you suggest me to use instead of simplemde to use on mobile ?