PeopleEditor loses focus on overbackspacing

Question

Well, if the user writes anything on PeopleEditor(allowtypein=true) and then from any point of it starts to backspace till the beginning, the PeopleEditor loses focus.

This is a quite annoying problem for people like me who press backspace like crazy until everything is erased. Because the next backspace after the beginning point will just send you the previous page, thanks to back shortcut on backspace.

It is likely due to a SP bug rather than something wrong I have done. Still, I wanted to ask..

Answer 1

I just received similar complaint from one of my clients. What are the odds?

In Google Chrome after 'too much backspace' in people picker you will end on the previous page. This is not directly SharePoint issue and can be easily solved by installing following Chrome extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gafonhphlnckhffodlclkcadifplniag

This is maybe not the best but it's the simplest solution.