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I was attempting to flag a question which is when I came across a strange thing.

I clicked the flag link which opened a Dialog where it asked for options like "very low quality" and "other" radio buttons.

Here first I selected the "very low quality" radio button and after a while, I thought I should go for the "other" radio button.

So I clicked on it, and thought of entering some content. But again I changed my mind and went to "very low quality" radio button. I clicked it and now the "flag question" button was still disabled.

Can anyone tell me why this has happened?

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  • Can't reproduce this, works for me.
    – Joachim Sauer
    Commented Jul 26, 2011 at 12:16
  • select other, click inside the edit column, without typing anything again select "very low quality". the button will be disabled. This is how I got it.
    – Andro Selva
    Commented Jul 26, 2011 at 12:18
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    Repro with FF6 Beta. Clicking the RadioButton shortly does reactivate and instantly deactivate the button again. Holding the click for half a second does reactivate the button.
    – Time Traveling Bobby
    Commented Jul 26, 2011 at 12:19
  • oh fine. But I believe that there will be someone like me who might not know this.
    – Andro Selva
    Commented Jul 26, 2011 at 12:20
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    Reproduced. Click back and forth between very low quality and other. Fill in some text in the other dialog. Then click very low quality, and the Flag Question button will be disabled.
    – Awesome Poodles
    Commented Jul 26, 2011 at 12:21
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    Oh. Weird. I managed to reproduce this at one point, but not any other point. Following @Bobby's comment, it seems to be some measure of haste involved, but I can't reliably reproduce it. IE8/XP here. What I have noticed, though, is that if you do get the button disabled, then clicking the "very low quality" radio a second time will usually fix it.
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented Jul 26, 2011 at 12:21
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    Repro in Chrome using the info from @Bobby: clicking it shortly triggers the bug. Strange.
    – Joachim Sauer
    Commented Jul 26, 2011 at 12:21
  • @Grace Note Could you please follow my previous comment and try?
    – Andro Selva
    Commented Jul 26, 2011 at 12:22
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    My guess: the unblur event of the text field checks for sufficient length of the comment and the onfocus of the radio button enables the button. A timing difference causes the unblur to be handled after the onfocus if the click doesn't take long. Therefore, the button is re-enabled and re-disabled in quick succession.
    – Joachim Sauer
    Commented Jul 26, 2011 at 12:23
  • Trying your original comment did not work, that was my initial test that did not reproduce (and was my original comment noting such).
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented Jul 26, 2011 at 12:23
  • You really have to work at this to see the problem. And anyway, clicking the radio button again solves it.
    – Cody Gray
    Commented Jul 26, 2011 at 12:23
  • @Grace Note Well, I am using Mozilla. I am not sure about other browsers though!
    – Andro Selva
    Commented Jul 26, 2011 at 12:24
  • @GraceNote -- i repro'd it in Chrome 12 Windows 7
    – Naftali
    Commented Jul 26, 2011 at 14:10

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Reset to default
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A fix for this will be pushed tonight.

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  • couldn't see any fix yet
    – Andro Selva
    Commented Aug 24, 2011 at 12:18
  • You're still seeing the issue? What browser are you using?
    – Jarrod Dixon
    Commented Aug 24, 2011 at 13:38
  • We've had a few issues lately with our CDN - try clearing your cache and getting the latest javascript.
    – Jarrod Dixon
    Commented Aug 24, 2011 at 13:58
  • @JarrodDixon - I think it's been long enough that we can no longer blame this on the CDN or caching. Still seeing it with Chrome 19.latest, as are others: Flag button gets perma-disabled
    – Kevin Vermeer
    Commented May 23, 2012 at 13:45

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