# Messy highlight bar UI when navigating by keyboard

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/messy-highlight-bar-ui-when-navigating-by-keyboard/30215
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [19 Junio, 2015 15:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messy-highlight-bar-ui-when-navigating-by-keyboard/30215 "2015-06-19T15:32:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author: ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [19 Junio, 2015 15:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messy-highlight-bar-ui-when-navigating-by-keyboard/30215/1 "2015-06-19T15:32:25Z")

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When navigating by keyboard between posts in a topic, two concerns:

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/0/0085e397e6dc15c3f8ec908db6be5b08f9ad9b88.png)

1. There’s this weird blue line above the post as shown above.
2. Some white space around the highlight bar would be nice. 😄

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### Author: ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [19 Junio, 2015 16:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messy-highlight-bar-ui-when-navigating-by-keyboard/30215/2 "2015-06-19T16:00:44Z")

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IIRC there was something similar with keyboard navigating the composer.  
I don’t know if that was ever resolved but @TechnoBear probably will.

Oh, and IIRC it’s browser specific. Have you tried testing with different browsers?

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### Author: ![TechnoBear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/technobear/32/40546_2.png) [@TechnoBear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TechnoBear)
#### Post date: [19 Junio, 2015 16:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messy-highlight-bar-ui-when-navigating-by-keyboard/30215/3 "2015-06-19T16:02:45Z")

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> [@downey](#):
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> There’s this weird blue line above the post as shown above.

It’s an oddly-placed cursor.

Presumably related to this:  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/small-ui-bug-with-user-cards-in-firefox-on-linux/27408?u=technobear](https://meta.discourse.org/t/small-ui-bug-with-user-cards-in-firefox-on-linux/27408)

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [19 Junio, 2015 16:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messy-highlight-bar-ui-when-navigating-by-keyboard/30215/4 "2015-06-19T16:04:49Z")

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What browser? As it doesn’t do that in Chrome.

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### Author: ![TechnoBear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/technobear/32/40546_2.png) [@TechnoBear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TechnoBear)
#### Post date: [19 Junio, 2015 16:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messy-highlight-bar-ui-when-navigating-by-keyboard/30215/5 "2015-06-19T16:06:15Z")

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Firefox, I expect. All the instances of this I’ve reported/encountered so far have been Firefox.

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [19 Junio, 2015 16:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messy-highlight-bar-ui-when-navigating-by-keyboard/30215/6 "2015-06-19T16:10:18Z")

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> [@TechnoBear](#):
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> Firefox, I expect. All the instances of this I’ve reported/encountered so far have been Firefox.

The one browser that doesn’t work at my work place… go figure!

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### Author: ![TechnoBear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/technobear/32/40546_2.png) [@TechnoBear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TechnoBear)
#### Post date: [19 Junio, 2015 16:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messy-highlight-bar-ui-when-navigating-by-keyboard/30215/7 "2015-06-19T16:12:03Z")

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> [@cpradio](#):
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> The one browser that doesn’t work at my work place.

I’d get a new job…

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [19 Junio, 2015 16:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messy-highlight-bar-ui-when-navigating-by-keyboard/30215/8 "2015-06-19T16:20:12Z")

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Off Topic:

I like my job. It seems to be a they are blocking how Firefox verifies SSL, which in turns prevents me from being able to use for sites like Meta. I’ve just learned to live with it (I don’t really like Firefox anyway)

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### Author: ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [19 Junio, 2015 17:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messy-highlight-bar-ui-when-navigating-by-keyboard/30215/9 "2015-06-19T17:25:32Z")

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> [@cpradio](#):
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> What browser?

Sorry. Firefox (latest) on Fedora 22.
