# Tag Panel cursor position jumps to front after saving tags
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-cursor-position-jumps-to-front-after-saving-tags/43061
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [September 23, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-cursor-position-jumps-to-front-after-saving-tags/43061 "2018-09-23T16:35:55Z")
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### Author:  [@lynniemagoo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/lynniemagoo)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-cursor-position-jumps-to-front-after-saving-tags/43061/1 "2018-09-23T16:35:55Z")
Hello Florian,
I know you reworked the layout capabilites of the column editor in the left pane to better work with the splitter bar move. The results are nice. I noticed a couple of things that just did not seem correct.
What I am seeing with v2.90
1. The Genre text is now right-aligned in the drop-down instead of being left aligned. Is this a bug or by intent? (Update: Appears to have reverted to pre-2.90 behavior in v2.90a) - Thanks.
2. If you are editing Comments for example and the cursor is at the end of the Comments field, pressing Ctrl-S to save puts the cursor back at the first character of the text. Often I edit a comment and append an '_' to force all tracks in an album to be written. i.e. Append '_', Ctrl-S, Remove '_', Ctrl-S. The workaround for this now is to insert '_' at the front instead of appending to the end. (Still an issue in v2.90a).
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-cursor-position-jumps-to-front-after-saving-tags/43061/2 "2018-09-23T17:06:07Z")
> [@lynniemagoo](#):
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> Often I edit a comment and append an ' _' to force all tracks in an album to be written_
This looks like a long winded way to save something.
MP3tag saves the current state as soon as you press Ctrl-S regardless whether you have (actually) changed anything or not.
Whether saving happens to an album or not depends on the selected files. MP3tag does not know anything about albums.
> [@lynniemagoo](#):
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> If you are editing Comments for example ... (Still an issue in v2.90a).
I always thought that this is perfectly normal behaviour. I just looked at MS Excel, editted a cell, pressed Ctrl-S and the edit mode was terminated, the cursor stayed in the cell but not at the character position.
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### Author:  [@lynniemagoo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/lynniemagoo)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-cursor-position-jumps-to-front-after-saving-tags/43061/3 "2018-09-23T17:22:58Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Whether saving happens to an album or not depends on the selected files. MP3tag does not know anything about albums.
I agree that MP3Tag knows nothing about albums. In the example here, I was editing an album which happens to be all tracks in a single folder and did not explicitly state what I was doing.
I agree Excel and others do things this way and not saying MP3Tag is incorrect. The purpose of my post was to illustrate different behavior I was seeing between 2.87 and 2.90+. I noticed this last night in a long tag-editing session and wanted to report what I saw.
Anyone have any additional questions/comments, please feel free to jump in.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-cursor-position-jumps-to-front-after-saving-tags/43061/4 "2026-02-09T14:45:35Z")
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