BUG: Cursor on Wrong Line After Opening Page

ID: Q191051

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

When you open a page by double-clicking an item in the Task List, the cursor might not be positioned on the correct line when the page contains one or more controls.


CAUSE

When a design-time control is shown graphically in Source view, several lines of text are actually hidden. The graphical control consumes one line in the editor, but several lines of text might actually have been used in the file. When you open a file from the Task List, the cursor appears on the wrong line because line numbers are being counted as if the controls were not shown graphically.


RESOLUTION

If the file is already open in the editor, the Task List correctly locates the appropriate line. After you double-click an item in the Task List and if the cursor is on the wrong line, double-click the item in the Task List a second time to position the cursor at the correct location.


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this bug and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.


MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Open an Active Server Pages page from a Web project into Source view.


  2. Drag a ButtonDTC from the Toolbox onto the page.


  3. Right-click on a line that follows the ButtonDTC, and click Add Shortcut.


  4. Save and close the page.


  5. From the View menu, click Other Windows, and then click Task List to open the Task List.


  6. Double-click the item that you created in step 3.


Additional query words: 


Keywords          : kbCtrl kbVisID600bug kbGrpASP 
Version           : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: May 24, 1999