Text input is obstructed by suggestions in Brave for Android phone

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In text input fields Brave is completely obstructing entered text with suggestions since 1 or 2 updates ago. Scrolling a little hides the suggestions but as soon as I start typing again the text box is hidden by suggestions once again. This is extremely frustrating, suggestions should appear either above or below the text box normally.

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Did you try disabling Show top sites in suggestions option under Brave Shields & privacy settings?

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Isn’t that option specific to the address bar for urls and bookmarks?

The issue is with in-site forms, such as name/address and previously searched words on websites.

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Do you have a screenshot of this happening. More helpful to see it visually

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Here I typed “a” and it gets obstructed by suggestions:

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So you are tying in the search box and its showing up the suggestions and you want to disabled that is that correct?

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No, the text box should stay visible with the suggestions appearing either above or below it, as was the correct behavior before 1 or 2 updates ago.

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Here’s a screenshot of Chrome behaving correctly, same as Brave used to before the bug:

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@Mattches can you try to repro this issue? I can’t seem to repro it on my devices.

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@sriram yeah I can actually — just like @Nomnominous stated:

  1. Visited the site (nootropics.com)
  2. Searched a couple things
  3. Now when I tap into the search box, the suggestions block off the actual input field entirely

That being said, it appears to only happen on that site. I tested other sites such as Youtube, Wired, IGN, Kotaku, Github, and this Community and was not able to reproduce the issue.

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It seems to happen on websites where the text box is not pinned at the top. Also for name/address/telephone/email fields.

It happens in the search box for https://www.canada.ca/en.html as well.

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Also, you tested on nootropics.com, my first example was on nootropicsexpert.com, so you added an example site where the problem occurs.

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@Nomnominous,
That was my mistake, I did search nootropicsexpert.com initially. I also checked on canada.ca/en.html and while it doesn’t block the input field, the autofill suggestions box does appear to be strangely spaced. Seeing as I can reproduce this I’ll go ahead and open an issue and leave the link here.

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Issue opened here:

cc @sriram

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