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Q&A Why does the title come after the body when writing a question?

This has bugged me too. To be clear, we are talking about when you write a question, not how questions are displayed. When I click on the button to write a new question, the first thing I want to ...

posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Olin Lathrop‭ · 2020-08-01T12:49:43Z (over 4 years ago)
This has bugged me too.  To be clear, we are talking about when you write a question, not how questions are displayed.

When I click on the button to write a new question, the first thing I want to write is the title.  I remember the first few times thinking <i>"What the...?  Where do I put the title?"</i>, then finding it is below the main text edit box for some reason.  That's certainly not where I expected to find it.

I think that in all cases I've written questions, I have always scrolled down and entered the title first.  Each time I mean to mention it here, but then forget by the time the question is written and posted.

I agree this should be fixed.

Oh, and it shouldn't be called a "summary".  It's a title.  Call it that.  Explaining that it should be a quick summary is a good idea, though.