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[Bug]: Sudden scroll on react website

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Description

Summary

Hi, I found this bug both on firefox and brave (windows 11), to reproduce this try to folow any docs page (ex: ) as you were actually reading it, it occurs more near the end of the docs page, scroll slowly to keep the paragraph you are reading in the middle of the screen and you will found this bug.

Page

https://react.dev/learn/reacting-to-input-with-state

Details

Hi, I found this bug both on firefox and brave (windows 11), to reproduce this try to folow any docs page (ex: ) as you were actually reading it, it occurs more near the end of the docs page, scroll slowly to keep the paragraph you are reading in the middle of the screen and you will found this bug.

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the scroll behavior on the linked React documentation page in Firefox and Brave on Windows 11, scrolling slowly near the end while keeping a paragraph centered. Done means the page no longer jumps unexpectedly during this reading pattern.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript, react
Domain
documentation, frontend, web-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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