fregante/GhostText

Some sites may remove listeners on `blur`

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#213 opened on Aug 15, 2021

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Description

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Browser: Chrome Editor: VS Code

Description

Sites that listen to the change event of the textarea don't update.

One example is GitHub's "Comment" button of issues and PRs, which doesn't update when the text is written via GhostText.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3305402/129475148-31d3bf8b-a082-4bfb-a1e4-0210f1a3ff27.mp4

I'll open a PR to fix it.

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Research direction
Investigate how GhostText attaches 'change' event listeners to textareas and why those listeners are removed when the textarea loses focus. Look at the code that synchronizes editor content with the textarea, particularly event handling for 'blur' and 'change' events.
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
Prerequisites
JavaScriptBrowser extension conceptsDOM events
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60