invalid password / user causes username and password boxes to bounce around

[mrmist]

In Opera 9.51 or IE 8, if you log in with an invalid user/pass then, after the screen is redrawn with the red warning box the user/pass inputboxes bounce around from left to right on the screen a few times before settling in their correct position.

I'm not sure if this was intentionally introduced, but it doesn't look intentional, it looks broken, and odd.

Assigning to the UI component, there may be a better fit.

[duck_]

This is intentional, see [12815] and [12817] as well as a few recent fixes for iPhone and IE6.

I seem to remember it shaking the login_error div rather than the login form itself... hmm oh well :S

[mrmist]

Hmm ok.. I think it would make more sense if it did shake the error box,as at least then it would be shaking the thing that is explaining the problem, rather than the empty boxes (though I'm not sure why it has to shake anything). Currently it just appears broken, at least to me.

Switching to enhancement, then, on the assumption that the intention was to shake the input boxes.

[ocean90]

This is intentional and it was always the login form. Shaking the login_error div is not nice, it's hard to read the error message then. After the shaking the input box which has forced the error message/shaking will be focused. So closing as worksforme.

[mrmist]

I'd really rather prefer some more input on this. It looks poor IMO. It looks like a CSS error is causing the box to shake around, rather than an intentional act. I don't understand what the point of the shaking is, the red box was perfectly obvious enough, and the shaking actually distracts attention away from the error box.

[ocean90]

Too many lead devs have a Mac. ;-)
Why it looks like an CSS error? For me it's very smooth, see ​http://screenr.com/J7g

[dd32]

I seem to remember it shaking the login_error div rather than the login form itself... hmm oh well :S

Nope, Its always shaked the login form, It shouldnt be shaking the login error div however at all..

This style of "shaking the head" is more common on macs apparently..

[duck_]

Replying to dd32:

I seem to remember it shaking the login_error div rather than the login form itself... hmm oh well :S

Nope, Its always shaked the login form, It shouldnt be shaking the login error div however at all..

This style of "shaking the head" is more common on macs apparently..

Must've been my imagination moving the shake from the form to the error box.

[wpmuguru]

If you would like to disable the shake add this as a plugin:

function my_no_login_shake() {
	remove_action( 'login_head', 'wp_shake_js', 12 );
}
add_action('login_head','my_no_login_shake');

[mrmist]

Thanks Guru, I will put in that plugin.

I do sometimes wonder why unnecessary functionality like this goes in, and then has to be removed by adding even more code, but judging from this ticket the tide is against me on this one.

[nacin]

This is honestly the first negative feedback I've seen on this. It's been in since early 3.0 and most people love it.

[nacin]

Replying to mrmist:

Thanks Guru, I will put in that plugin.

I do sometimes wonder why unnecessary functionality like this goes in, and then has to be removed by adding even more code, but judging from this ticket the tide is against me on this one.

Personally, I would just avoid getting your password wrong. :-)