Media shortcuts stuck on Youtube
I can't insert spaces to my text on Youtube search bar and comment section. The space bar acts as a media play pause button. The issue appears only on Firefox, I've tried Edge and the space bar behaves normally there on Youtube. Adds a space on text boxes and plays or pauses the video when the video box is selected. I know this might be a dumb solution but I have had way too much on my back the past week I just cannot deal with this now.
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Thank you for flagging up this issue.
YouTube have looked into this and will be correcting the issue shortly.
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There have been quite a few reports about this YouTube issue recently.
Looks like a YouTube bug where JavaScript always interprets a space bar and other characters as control keys and doesn't disable this action when an input field has focus.
See also:
- /questions/1328819 Youtube search bar issues
A possible workaround for now is to write text or affected characters elsewhere (e.g. in the location bar) and paste the clipboard content in the search bar or comment field.
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Hi
Thank you for flagging up this issue.
YouTube have looked into this and will be correcting the issue shortly.
I'm glad this didn't even take 24hrs to resolve. Issue is gone now.