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Unwanted box full of text appears whenever my cursor enters a text input box. Pictures will explain
Picture One shows what a text box (Subject box in this case) looks like when a page is opened, and the cursor is not in the box.
Picture Two shows what happens when the cursor enters the box.
When I am writing something, I just move the cursor out of the box so I can see what I am doing.
When doing editing/spell checking etc, for instance using Grammarly, I have to have the cursor in the box to highlight the text, but the unwanted box typically hides the text that I am trying to see.
I have no idea at all if I am even writing this in the correct place as I have not used a Forum like this before.
If it is in the wrong please, would a Moderator kindly move it to where it is likely to be seen and hopefully answered?
I have put up with it ever since I started using the Insider Version of Edge. I was previously using Chrome, but decided to give Edge a try. It has been a few months now, and I am finally getting sick of it.
I was hoping that it was a bug that would get ironed out in Edge updates, but alas here I am.
I do not know what the box is for or what it's contents are telling me, but I do know it is annoying.
It is not present in Chrome.
Thank you in advance for your time,
TazR6 :-0)
Picture OnePicture Two
- This is our autofill diagnostics box, which shouldn't be showing by default. Did you enable any flags or command line features? If not, I can ask if our switch to turn it off is still functional, or you can just reinstall Edge without keeping your data, and that should reset whatever setting is causing is.
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- This is our autofill diagnostics box, which shouldn't be showing by default. Did you enable any flags or command line features? If not, I can ask if our switch to turn it off is still functional, or you can just reinstall Edge without keeping your data, and that should reset whatever setting is causing is.
Mine did not have full boxes of text, but would suddenly appear with strange input suggestions wherever the cursor happened to be. First thought it was only in Outlook until I searched the 'net for suggestions with similar problems (& found this thread) whereupon the drop down input textbox from my email appeared!
Tried suggested solutions & checked that my "Developer Mode" was still indeed off; it was.
Could not get any response when I right-clicked in the input box, and finally, just thought it might have to do with my Speech Recognition being on (although it had never done this before when I was not using it). Turned off my speech recognition so that it was not active at start-up; signed off, and once again opened Outlook to finish my email. All worked as expected, thank God, so that the annoying input text, drop down box no longer appear at my input cursor's position.Hope these suggestions help with your situation. Thanks, and God bless.
josh_bodner Thank you, thank you thank you.
I found that for some reason beyond me, the Show Autofill Predictions had been enabled. I have no recollection of enabling it, but wow, such a simple fix but a massive improvement. It was driving me mad, and I had no idea what to look for.
It feels like a novelty to be able to see what I am typing now.
Thanks again,Neil 🙂
