Issue with click-drag-select in text input field also scrolls parent element, webkit bug or feature?

Question

There\'s a weird behavior that I\'ve been experiencing with only the webkit browsers since last year, and it is driving me nuts.

I\'ve tried doing searches on this,

Answer 1

Just wrestled with this strange one for the first time. I found that if I set the width of the text field to something less-than-or-equal-to the container, the parent element didn't scroll in relation to the text input value.