Description Andrew Johnson 2020-06-21 03:49:01 EDT

To reproduce (on Firefox 77.0.1, Chrome 83.0.4103.106)

From https://babel.eclipse.org/babel/translate.php
Select a language, project, version, file, string to translate.

Translation Hints [Clear]
Select some English text above to find similar translations

Select some text
Some suggestions come back or else 
'No hints found. Press [clear] to start over.'

whichever happens, clear does nothing. It links to javascript:void();


However if you first press [Clear] which links to javascript:clearHints(); then that clears the initial hint text.
Then select some text.
A suggestion comes back or
'No hints found. Press [clear] to start over.'

The clear button now works, even though it links to javascript:void();


I think the problem is in translationHints.js

There might be a race condition between
setting the button HTML
https://git.eclipse.org/c/babel/server.git/tree/html/js/translationHint.js#n22
domNode.innerHTML = "Translation Hints [<a id=\"clear-btn\"href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Clear</a>]";	

and setting the operation:
https://git.eclipse.org/c/babel/server.git/tree/html/js/translationHint.js#n29
	this.setupCB();

Perhaps the operation gets set first on the button, then the button anchor changes, and the operation gets lost.


I can fix it via GreaseMonkey by moving the setupCB() call to after setting the
innerHTML.