Drag select in text fields causes scrolling

On many sites in safari under Yosemite, I click drag text in a text field, and get scrolled back to the top of the page. Happens in blogger and many other platforms

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If I show you the code, maybe you could suggest a better way to do things
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button2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, click_handler2);
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function click_handler2(event_object:MouseEvent) {
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     while (arrayThumb.length > 0) {
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addChild(photoContainer);
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