Hello dear mods--

I just lost a post that took a long time to write....it took so long that my session timed out and I couldn't retrieve it....it took so long to write because of this problem I'm having with the text window given for posting. This just started happening a few days ago, by the way. ...are you guys trying to make me get more concise in my comments or something??? On my computer (A newer Dell, windows vista), your posting/text window looks like it is about 5inches across, and 2 inches tall. Well, as soon as I fill up that 2 inches, it becomes very difficult to continue typing, because the line I'm typing disappears from view the second I've typed a single letter--the line I'm typing will not stay in view. The whole body of my text bounces continuously up and down with each individual character typed, as if the text window is trying to keep the top/beginning of my post in view at all times. Gah, this causes a continuous flickering of the page that is driving me nuts, making me make way more typos than usual, and making it really really hard to correct typos because of this continuous bouncing! You hit a key (any key) and the line is in view...you're done hitting the key and it bounces out of sight. So we're talking a rapid fire bounce of the text while typing. When I finish a sentence and pause, the beginning of my post instantly reappears at the top of the text box, and the rest of it disappears from view at the bottom (the same way your legs are not in view when you stand in front of a window. Your legs are still there, but to someone on the other side of the window, all they see is your head/torso). I don't 'lose' the text really--it just constantly disappears from view as I go along. It is starting to happen now, now that I've filled the damned 2inches of box aarrrghhghhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've had this issue on and off too.

I have had issues with the whole screen disappearing except the line I am writing. Then if I move the screen up and down with the side bar, it comes back.

I've never had this issue. What web browsers are y'all using? That might make a difference.

I've never had this issue on Firefox.

Using Firefox.

I have had this issue too. It is only when the message gets a little longer. As you said it jumps up everytime I type anything on the last line.

I use internet explorer exclusively. not a firefox fan! Glad to know I'm not the only one with this problem. interestingly enough, I was just posting about Rhogam--this issue started to come up, then stopped (Thanks be).

Obviously you are posting comments way too long........lololololololol

I don't think I have ever had this problem. If you are having issues and know that you are going to be writing a saga (hehehe) then could you use a word processor and cut and paste into here? Then you won't lose all you hard typed effort. I have had that happen here before mostly because my internet connection shit the bed....

Don't you go hurting my feelings, Shannon

yeah, it actually occurred to me that if I have a ramble coming over me and I run into this danged window problem, I could switch to a word doc and then copy it in when I'm done. Or before I let the ramble get the best of me, I could sit for 1/2 hr first (hands off keyboard), chanting 'brevity is the soul of wit, brevity is the soul of wit...."

But blast it, the post I lost was a really good one about primary apnea and neonate breathing initiation.....oh well. There's doubtless more where that came from