Xcode Developer Documentation Link Hover Jumps To Top

Question

I don't know how I got into this state, but the Xcode documentation window has been exhibiting this strange behavior of "jumping to top" whenever I hover over a link in one of the doc files.

For example, I'll be scrolling down to, say, the methods of a Class Reference, and as soon as I hover over one of them, the doc window jumps right back to the top.

Has anyone else encountered this? If so, is there a fix for within Xcode?

Meanwhile, opening up the doc in a browser works around the problem.

Answer 1

I've encountered it (only when viewing the docs in Safari, not the doc viewer itself), and I believe it's a known bug fixed in Xcode 3.2 (for Snow Leopard).

Answer 2

Thanks for the replies everyone!

Meanwhile, I have just stumbled upon a workaround.

To preface, I have to clarify/correct two things for my particular case:

1. The problem only occurs when hovering over the links in the Tasks section.
2. The jump doesn't necessarily go to the top-of-page. Rather, it goes to wherever the original landing spot was when you opened the doc. (In URL parlance this is the fragment, e.g. *#//apple_ref...*).

On to the workaround:

In the Xcode doc viewer (and even in Safari), there should be a "Jump To..." drop-down when this problem occurs. You only need click on it once, dismiss it, and then the jumping problem goes away! For the time being. :)

Please let me know if this works for you as well.

Answer 3

Yes - it helped me, this was driving me nuts. To be clear, the drop-down is in the "developer-documentation" window located to the right (and as a peer) of the "table of contents" expander.

Answer 4

Thanks so much! This was happening for me in Snow Leopard with Xcode 3.2.2 (meaning that it hasn't been fixed yet in this version of the doc viewer). What an irritating problem it was too.