Cursor position misplaced
Hey, I've checked your code and tried to debug it. It seems to me that the code is not passing the mouse event to the onActive method, which is needed: ```js componentEl.addEventListener('click', (ev) => { component.view.onActive(ev); });
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GrapesJS version [x] I confirm to use the latest version of GrapesJS What browser are you using? Chrome Reproducible demo link https://codepen.io/Harshsne/pen/gbYjOWO Describe the bug How to reproduce the bug? I have called onactive on single click so that i can edit the textbox in single click. The cursor should be placed where i click ,that is what happens in double click event(that is what is expected when double click it changed to single click). What is the expected behavior? ...cursor should be placed where i click What is the current behavior? ...cursor goes to the starting of the text...
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Hey, I've checked your code and tried to debug it. It seems to me that the code is not passing the mouse event to the onActive method, which is needed:
componentEl.addEventListener('click', (ev) => {
component.view.onActive(ev);
});
The issue you're experiencing, where the cursor always goes to the beginning of the text box when activating editing on a single click, stems from how contenteditable elements are programmatically activated versus how they behave with native browser double-click events. When you manually set compon...
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