Bad behavior when Anki displaying the answer

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Hello. I am using Anki 2.1.42 in Debian Testing. When I review a card (with any of Again, Hard, Good, Easy), the answer is displayed. The expected behaviour is that the answer section (below the <hr id = answer> in the Back Template) would be displayed, but the whole card is shown instead. In this gif you can see what I am talking about.

  1. I answer the card and the whole card is shown
  2. I undo the review
  3. I answer the same card and the answer section (below <hr id = answer>) is shown (expected behaviour).

What’s wrong with this?

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I presume you mean that it’s not scrolling down to the answer. It does for me - have you ruled out add-ons as the cause?

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I presume you mean that it’s not scrolling down to the answer.

Yes that’s what I mean. I tried with all the addons disabled and creating another profile and the behaviour is the same.

4

I found in the changelog that version 2.1.37:

  • Fixed review screen not automatically scrolling to answer (thanks to Henrik).

Maybe it is related?

5

My guess is that it is scrolling to the answer area, but the image is taking a while to load, and is loading after that. Is your video driver set to software in the preferences?

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On my pc I don’t see lag, maybe it’s the screencast program. The video driver set in preferences is “software”, but I also tried with OpenGL (+restart) and I didn’t notice any changes. Here there are 2 videos showing the behaviour (the first one is like the gif posted above).

I noticed that the card is automatically scrolling to answer in 2 situations:

  1. Answer the card, pass to the next card and go back to the previous one with UNDO (CTRL+Z) (See video 1)
  2. Edit a card, select the Back Template, select either Front Template or Styling, go back to Back Template. (See video 2).
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Did you try without the Javascript?

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Yes, I tried deleting the js script from the cards.
Here is my last card template that I have tried:

Styling:

.card {
    font-family: roboto,sans-serif; /* FONT FAMILY */
    font-size: 20px; /* FONT SIZE */
    text-align: center; /* ALIGN TEXT */
	line-height: 1.2; /* DISTANCE BTWN LINES */
    color: #657b83; /* FONT COLOR */
    background-color: #fdf6e3; /* BACKGROUND COLOR */
}
.card.nightMode {
    color: #839496; /* FONT COLOR */
    background-color: #002b36; /* BACKGROUND COLOR */
}

Front:

{{Front}}

Back:

{{FrontSide}}
<hr id="answer">
{{Back}}
{{#Extra}}
<h4>Extra</h4> 
<div>{{Extra}}</div>
{{/Extra}}
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When returning to the preferences, it’s showing OpenGL? If so, you could try the following in your card template:

<script>aFade=500; if (typeof anki !== 'undefined') anki.aFade=aFade;</script>

You should see the question fade out and answer fade in. Does it make a difference to the scrolling?

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I have set Video Driver OpenGL (+restart Anki) and put the script in my Front Template. The result was the same, here a video.

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Hmm, that link doesn’t seem to be working for me at the moment. In any case, could I trouble you to move two problem cards to a separate deck, export it, and share it somewhere?

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Of course! Here is a sample deck with a few notes Default.apkg - Google Drive

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Thanks, I was able to reproduce the issue with that deck. It is caused by the images loading, and a fix will be in the next update.

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