# Focusing on input in modal on mobiles scrolls the page up and makes the modal invisible
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/focusing-on-input-in-modal-on-mobiles-scrolls-the-page-up-and-makes-the-modal-invisible/60699
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [10 أبريل 2017، 3:57ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/focusing-on-input-in-modal-on-mobiles-scrolls-the-page-up-and-makes-the-modal-invisible/60699 "2017-04-10T03:57:15Z")
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [10 أبريل 2017، 3:57ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/focusing-on-input-in-modal-on-mobiles-scrolls-the-page-up-and-makes-the-modal-invisible/60699/1 "2017-04-10T03:57:15Z")
I’ve been able to reproduce this issue for a long time now. To me it looks like a **UX bug**.
**The impact** is that it is hardly possible to use modal dialogs in mobile mode, i.e.:
- split topics, both moving messagins to an existing or to a new topic
- flag topics with “other” reason and a personal note
- some other actions
In all these cases, here is **what happens**.
1. A modal dialog opens. For example, after I select a few messages in the middle of a long topic and is about to split them into an existing topic
2. I touch the input to enter the search keyword. The dialog disappears and I can only see the gray background, which is an overlay layer behind the modal and on top of the website.
3. Because the layout is transparent, I can notice how the page got scrolled behind the overlay.
4. In order for the dialog to appear again, I have to click on the “Done” button, which is part of my iPhone keyboard. The keyboard then gets hidden and I can see the dialog again, but the input is unfocused.
5. I touch the input to let it gain focus again. But then 2, 3 and 4 repeats until the topic scrolls up to the very top, so that no more scrolling is possible. The longer the topic, the more times I have to focus / blur the input.
6. Finally, when there is no more content to scroll to, the dialog will not disappear anymore, and I can do what I intended to.
This makes moderation hardly possible from mobile.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [10 أبريل 2017، 5:15ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/focusing-on-input-in-modal-on-mobiles-scrolls-the-page-up-and-makes-the-modal-invisible/60699/2 "2017-04-10T05:15:31Z")
This is a duplicate of the iPad issue, replicable with search in a topic. You better be at the top of the topic, or you are hosed.
> [@Search bar disappears on iPad in long topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-bar-disappears-on-ipad-in-long-topics/55583):
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> Let me know if you can also reproduce this. So far I’ve tested on iPad Air 2, Safari and Chrome: Go to a topic long enough that you need to load a new batch of posts Scroll to the bottom of the topic Click the search button, then click the search field to invoke the virtual keyboard The keyboard should go off-screen Won’t work on mobile because we immediately go straight to full-screen search there.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [13 أبريل 2017، 5:15ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/focusing-on-input-in-modal-on-mobiles-scrolls-the-page-up-and-makes-the-modal-invisible/60699/3 "2017-04-13T05:15:31Z")
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