Drag Sorting issues in Web Component with Shadow Dom disabled
This bug/request isn't just for StencilJS, but just in general with Web Components and the Shadow DOM. Are there best practices with Grapes and Web Components with enabling or tracking events to mediate these issues? I'm not working with Web Components that much so if you're able to create a reproducible demo (eg. cus...
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Version 16.10 Are you able to reproduce the bug from the demo? [X] Yes [ ] No What is the expected behavior? That GrapesJS can support dragging & sorting interaction with custom Web Components which do not have the Shadow DOM enabled. Describe the bug Hello, we use GrapesJS extensively and integrate many of our custom web components, which are generated using the StencilJS project. An issue that we run into is that dragging elements into the Web Components. However, this is only problematic if the Shadow DOM is disabled (shadow: false). Shadow DOM enabled: [No Bug] Shadow DOM disabled: [Bug]...
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This bug/request isn't just for StencilJS, but just in general with Web Components and the Shadow DOM. Are there best practices with Grapes and Web Components with enabling or tracking events to mediate these issues? I'm not working with Web Components that much so if you're able to create a reprod...
@artf sure thing, thanks for the quick response. I have imported my custom web component library here in this Fiddle to demonstrate the issue: https://jsfiddle.net/jenter77/5btn2ao7/25/ If you reference my public repo and example "faux-grid-item" web component here you will see it's just a simple c...
Hi Jason, I've tried to give a look at what is happening inside the editor and, I'm not sure how the shadow option actually affects this behavior but, the main issue I see is that dynamic <div class="delayed--wrapper"> element. Basically the editor, post parsing, has this component structure but th...
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