# UX issues when changing post authors

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ux-issues-when-changing-post-authors/60756
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [2017年四月11日 03:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ux-issues-when-changing-post-authors/60756 "2017-04-11T03:57:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![niemeyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/niemeyer/32/120325_2.png) [@niemeyer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/niemeyer)
#### Post date: [2017年四月11日 03:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ux-issues-when-changing-post-authors/60756/1 "2017-04-11T03:57:52Z")

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When changing a post author, two different completion boxes show up:

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/3/d367e0508a1ad1df22cce6b54551cedd855dffcc.png)

The one at the top doesn’t do anything useful, and selecting it and clicking enter delivers the request, but doesn’t actually change the author. For it to work, one must select the edge of the bottom one instead.

Then, once the real item is selected and the author changing happens successfully, the underlying topic flies all the way to the top instead of staying in place where the modified post was sitting.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2017年四月11日 05:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ux-issues-when-changing-post-authors/60756/2 "2017-04-11T05:07:55Z")

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The one pictured on top is specific to your browser; we don’t control that.

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### Author: ![niemeyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/niemeyer/32/120325_2.png) [@niemeyer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/niemeyer)
#### Post date: [2017年四月11日 14:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ux-issues-when-changing-post-authors/60756/3 "2017-04-11T14:17:54Z")

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Everything in there is specific to my browser. This is a web application. 🙂

I believe you want `autocomplete="off"` or similar.

… yes, I’ve confirmed that this solves the issue.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2017年四月11日 14:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ux-issues-when-changing-post-authors/60756/4 "2017-04-11T14:32:49Z")

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Sure, @techAPJ can you add an autocomplete off here?

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [2017年四月11日 15:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ux-issues-when-changing-post-authors/60756/5 "2017-04-11T15:14:49Z")

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Fixed via:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/82dfe4c5d5867a091f1aa9fef0d04982152d21af](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/82dfe4c5d5867a091f1aa9fef0d04982152d21af)

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2017年四月11日 15:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ux-issues-when-changing-post-authors/60756/6 "2017-04-11T15:29:36Z")

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