Keyboard focus is lost after pasting text (Firefox)

[dcsaszar]

Description

The editable area loses the (visible) input cursor after pasting text in Firefox. Chrome is fine.

Steps to reproduce

1. Use FF (47.0.1)
2. visit https://yabwe.github.io/medium-editor/
3. click the editable text
4. paste something (using ctrl+v)

Expected behavior: [What you expected to happen]

• the input cursor blinks after the pasted text
• keyboard text input is still possible

Actual behavior: [What actually happened]

• no input cursor
• typing is not possible
• pasting again still pastes correctly

  Versions

• medium-editor: 5.21.0
• browser: Firefox
• OS: Ubuntu

[biggieman]

+1

[nmielnik]

This could definitely be related to #1178 , so if anyone investigates fixing either issue please try to investigate both at the same time.

[dcsaszar]

5087f4b84206aa7c76fe91204bff26f094dc1cb9 is the last working commit after that the dist is broken for a while (7 commits in the history of https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor/commits/master/src/js/extensions/paste.js) 3cc4165da287a4987a1e4807f4d24581dcffc698 has a working dist and shows the issue

One of the causes appears to be setting the .focus() to the pasteBin. If I comment out this line, it works.

[dcsaszar]

I don't know why we need the focus() on the paste bin. So, currently I see two possible solutions:

• don't focus the paste bin at all (https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor/blob/master/src/js/extensions/paste.js#L315-L320)
• put the paste bin div into the editable element instead of the body (https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor/blob/master/src/js/extensions/paste.js#L313 => sth like this.getEditorElements()[0].appendChild(pasteBinElm);)

[j0k3r]

Focus is needed so the content you just pasted is written into the paste bin. Otherwise the whole pastebin shouldn't work. I think we should better put the focus back to the editable element when pasting is done.

[dcsaszar]

How would I know the pastebin isn't working? I tried deleting the focus stuff and successfully pasted in the default index.html in Firefox and Chrome.

[j0k3r]

Well, if what you pasted was actually pasted, it means the whole paste stuff is working. Which looks strange without the focus :neutral_face:

[dcsaszar]

I'll open a PR and you can have a look.