[prosemirror-view] nodeViews Firefox cursoring

[RichieAHB]

Issue details

Apologies if this is already an issue but I couldn't find one exactly like this (although I know Firefox is a pain re: selection in other cases). When adding an input to a node view and Firefox won't let me move the cursor inside that input. Works fine in Chrome.

Steps to reproduce

Repro - type some text into the input and try to cursor around (with either mouse or arrow keys)

Affected platforms

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer (?)
• Other (?)

[marijnh]

Are you expecting the arrow keys to move the cursor out of the inner input field into the editable text?

[marijnh]

This appears to be this Firefox issue which has received zero attention in the past three years. When you focus the textarea in this situation you get a weird, corrupt selection (both document.activeElement and getSelection() return nonsense values).

[RichieAHB]

Great find - I actually think I can implement a sort of shim by removing contenteditable on focusin and then reselecting the input (and the reverse on focusout) in FF. It appears to be a bit difficult to turn the mouse x y at that point into a something that reliably reselects the intended place (still investigating solutions for this) but as the inputs are relatively small just focusing will suffice (it seems users will just click again if the cursor goes somewhere odd - which will work in this case) until I can find time to investigate a proper fix. Thanks for pushing that bug report but I, like you, am sceptical as to how much attention it will get.

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[marijnh]

I'm going to leave this open, since I'm sure it'll come up for other people, but I don't currently have the time to look for a workaround that would solve it on the ProseMirror side.