Cell hovering randomly displaces from actual cell
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Hi! I'm using grapesJs for e-mail editing in a project in my company, with Newsletter plugin. Everithing works very well, except for this bug i can't solve: Sometimes, when I drag blocks inside the canvas, the cell hover gets scrambled. The biggest problem is that this behavior is completely random, it can happen or not but it's quite annoying when it does. The only patterns are:Scrambles ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY right after dropping a block in canvasIf i resize the canvas for mobile/tablet it gets back to normal (even if turning back to desktop view - but it may happen again upon dropping new bl...
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Are you using the latest version?
Using minified 0.10.7
Sorry mate, it's a 4-year-old release, can't help you here. Did you try to update?
Thanks for reporting this, @diegoSenra. The issue with Cell hovering randomly displaces from actual cell appears to be a race condition or state management timing problem. This typically happens when component lifecycle events and DOM modifications overlap, creating an inconsistent state. What to t...
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