Forum:Misaligned Autocomplete on Semantic Forms

This is a wikia wide bug with the Semantic forms ("SF") extension. My wild ass guess is that since both wikia and SF use YUI that an assumption is being made that is valid for all wikia CSS objects (eg for category or template name autocomplete) but not non wikia objects employing YUI autocomplete.

To reproduce bug:
 * 1) Go to File:Santa_Fe_locomotive.
 * 2) Click "Edit with form" (next to "edit this page")
 * 3) Scroll the page so that the field labeled "State/province" is in the middle of the page.
 * 4) Type "texas"
 * Bug: Yahoo's Autocomplete floater aligns to absolute 0,0 of the article pane (now offscreen).
 * Expected behavior: floater is aligned to input field object left, and lower Y (eg:[Dom.getX("inputField"), Dom.getY("inputField") + Dom.get("myInput").offsetHeight +5)

This reproduces on other Wikia wikis:
 * government wiki

Browsers: IE8 and Firefox 3.0.13.

Regardless whether this is a bug that needs correction, please advise if there is specific js or css for page specific setting the coordinates for YUI autocomplete.

22:26, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I did not emphasize that this is a wikia bug not a bug in the extension. It does not show up on any other wikis other than those at wikia. The author of the extension has examined bug report and also believes it is a wikia configuration problem.  For that thread, see this sourceforge SMW mailist response from Yaron Koren.


 * Priority: Other wikis can speak for themselves, but this is a high priority bug for Familypedia.  SMW forms documentation cites Autocomplete as being one of its key strengths, and I agree.  Without a fix to this problem, forms do not offer a solution to the Garbage in, Garbage out phenomenon with structured data.  Concretely, when someone enters a historical event as occurring in "Greene county", it could be any of 16 different counties in the US alone.   17:13, 14 August 2009 (UTC)