Enter submits repeatable field-item dialog + autofocus (#127) - #322
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…kpit-HQ#127) - keyup.enter on the field-item dialog now triggers saveFieldItem() (same action as clicking Update item/Add item), instead of doing nothing - guarded so textarea/contenteditable inputs still get a normal newline, and so focused Cancel/Save buttons don't double-fire the action - the dialog's first input/textarea/select is now autofocused when it opens Fixes the select field options editor per the issue, but the fix lives in the shared repeatable-field-item dialog (FieldRenderer), so it applies to every field type that uses field.multiple (tags, object lists, etc.), not just select options.
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68-72: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd browser coverage for the dialog interaction contract.
Verify these cases in a browser:
- The select Options dialog focuses its first usable control after opening.
- Enter saves from a single-line input and select.
- Enter inserts a newline in a textarea and contenteditable control.
- Enter on the Update and Cancel controls does not invoke
saveFieldItem()twice.- The behavior works for at least one other
multiple: truefield type.This request follows the supplied test-plan note that browser-based testing was not performed.
Also applies to: 190-205, 277-277
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In `@modules/System/assets/vue-components/fields/renderer.js`:
- Around line 179-187: Update focusFieldItem() to find the first genuinely
focusable control within the dialog, skipping hidden or disabled inputs and
controls with contenteditable="false"; iterate through matching candidates
rather than relying on querySelector() returning the first match, then focus the
first valid control.
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In `@modules/System/assets/vue-components/fields/renderer.js`:
- Around line 68-72: Add browser tests covering the dialog interaction contract
around fieldItem and focusFieldItem: verify initial focus, Enter behavior for
single-line inputs/selects versus textarea/contenteditable, prevention of
duplicate saveFieldItem calls from Update/Cancel, and behavior for another
multiple: true field type.
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Blocking (correctness): this autofocus is almost certainly a no-op — the dialog has no input yet when focusFieldItem() runs.
The dialog body renders the field via <fields-renderer> → field-renderer, and the inner FieldRenderer template is gated on v-if="fieldTypes". fieldTypes is only populated in its own mounted() hook, from FieldTypes.get() (modules/System/assets/js/settings.js), which is declared async get() — so even on the cached this._fields path it resolves through extra microtask ticks, and assigning this.fieldTypes then requires a further render flush.
Microtask ordering when fieldItem is set:
- flush: dialog mounts, inner
field-renderermounts withfieldTypes === null→ renders nothing;FieldTypes.get().then(...)queued. $nextTickcallback (registered on the flush promise) →focusFieldItem()runs.- only later does
fieldTypesget assigned and a second flush render the actual<input>.
At step 2 dialog.querySelector("input, textarea, select, [contenteditable]") returns null, if (input) short-circuits, and nothing is focused — silently. So the second half of #127 ("input field should be auto focused") is not actually delivered, and the failure mode is invisible because of the null guard.
Please verify in a browser. If confirmed, focus needs to be driven by something that waits for the field to exist — e.g. focus from the inner component once it has rendered, or a bounded MutationObserver / retry on the dialog element — not a single $nextTick.
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Confirmed and fixed in 1fa69d3. focusFieldItem() now polls via a bounded requestAnimationFrame loop (~60 frames) until a genuinely focusable control exists in the dialog, instead of relying on a single $nextTick that fires before the nested field-renderer's async fieldTypes resolves.
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Two problems with this selector, beyond the CodeRabbit note:
[contenteditable]matchescontenteditable="false"as well. Use[contenteditable=""], [contenteditable="true"], or filter onel.isContentEditable(which is whatonFieldItemKeyupcorrectly uses one method below — worth being consistent).- It takes the first matching element, not the first focusable one. Concretely in this codebase:
field-code(and thereforefield-object, which wraps it) initialises CodeMirror 5 asynchronously and its real input is an offscreen<textarea>inside a 3px wrapper;field-booleanrenders<input type="checkbox" class="app-switch">, which is visually replaced by CSS. Neither is a sensible "first field to focus", and disabled/readonlyinputs are not excluded either.
Minor style point that also matters for CI (see summary): if (!dialog) return; / if (input) input.focus(); are brace-less single-line ifs; every other conditional in this file uses braces.
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Fixed in 1fa69d3 — added a getFocusableFieldItemInput() helper that skips disabled, contenteditable="false", and offscreen/near-zero-size controls (covers CodeMirror's hidden measuring textarea in field-code/field-object, and disabled/readonly inputs). Also added braces to both single-line conditionals.
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Blocking (correctness): the TEXTAREA / contenteditable / BUTTON / A allowlist does not cover the field types that actually consume Enter, and keyup is the wrong event for this.
Concrete counter-example in this repo — the tags field. field-tags.js renders <app-tags>, whose app-tags.js handleKeydown() does:
case "Enter":
e.preventDefault();
... this.addTag(inputValue);Its editable control is a plain <input type="text" class="app-tags-input">, so tagName is INPUT and isContentEditable is false — neither guard fires. And preventDefault() on keydown does not suppress keyup, nor does app-tags call stopPropagation(). Net result for a tags field with multiple: true: pressing Enter to commit a tag also saves and closes the item dialog. The user loses the dialog mid-entry. Same class of bug for any third-party field type that handles Enter itself.
Two further gaps that keyup makes unavoidable:
- IME composition. With a CJK IME, the Enter that commits a candidate produces a
keyupwithkey === "Enter"andisComposing === false(the composition flag only survives on keydown/keypress). So CJK users get the dialog submitted while they are still typing the option label. This is the standard argument for handling Enter onkeydownand checkingevt.isComposing || evt.keyCode === 229. - Focus moving between keydown and keyup. Keyboard events are delivered to whatever is focused at the time of the event. Once the autofocus above is fixed (it is currently inert — see my comment on line 71), activating the "Add item"
<button>with Enter will move focus into the dialog before keyup fires, so the keyup lands on the newly focused input, bubbles tokiss-content, and immediately re-saves and closes the dialog the user just opened. TheBUTTON/Aguard does not help, because by then the target is no longer the button. Today this is masked only because autofocus does not work — the two fixes are coupled.
Suggested shape: move to @keydown.enter, bail on evt.isComposing || evt.keyCode === 229, bail on evt.defaultPrevented (which cleanly covers app-tags and any other control that already calls preventDefault() on Enter), keep the TEXTAREA/isContentEditable guard, and evt.preventDefault() before saving.
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Fixed in 1fa69d3, taking the suggested shape: switched to @keydown.enter, bail on evt.isComposing || evt.keyCode === 229, bail on evt.defaultPrevented (confirmed this correctly excludes app-tags, since its own keydown listener sits on the input itself and runs before our ancestor listener during bubble, so its preventDefault() is already visible to us by the time we check), kept the TEXTAREA/isContentEditable guard, and call evt.preventDefault() before saving. Moving fully to keydown also removes the focus-race you flagged, since there's only one keydown event per physical keypress and it's dispatched/bubbled through the DOM as it existed at press time, before any dialog/focus change from that same press could occur.
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Reviewed against #127. The direction is right — the select options setting really is { name: 'options', type: 'text', multiple: true } (field-select.js:10), which routes through manager.js:350 → fields-renderer → field-renderer's field.multiple dialog, so fixing it in the shared FieldRenderer is the correct level. I verified that consumer claim on manager.js, field-select.js and field-set.js/field-object.js myself rather than taking it on trust.
However I do not think this is mergeable as-is. Three findings, posted inline:
1. The autofocus is almost certainly inert (inline on line 71). The inner field-renderer is gated on v-if="fieldTypes", and fieldTypes is only assigned from FieldTypes.get() — an async get() in modules/System/assets/js/settings.js that needs extra microtask ticks even on the cached path, plus a further render flush. A single $nextTick fires before any of that, so dialog.querySelector(...) returns null and the if (input) guard swallows it silently. That is the half of #127 that says "the input field should be auto focused", so the issue would only be half-closed.
2. The Enter guard misses real Enter-consuming field types, and keyup is the wrong event (inline on line 200). The clearest case is tags: app-tags.js#handleKeydown calls e.preventDefault() and addTag() on Enter, its control is a plain <input type="text">, and it never calls stopPropagation() — and preventDefault() on keydown does not suppress keyup. So for a tags field with multiple: true, Enter adds the tag and closes the dialog. keyup also breaks CJK IME users (the composition flag does not survive to keyup), and it is inherently racy with autofocus: once finding 1 is fixed, opening the dialog by pressing Enter on the "Add item" <button> will deliver the keyup to the newly focused input inside the dialog, instantly re-saving and closing it. Findings 1 and 2 are coupled and should be fixed together.
3. CI regression. DeepSource: JavaScript passes on the base commit (69d3238) and fails on this head (a1a16b9, "Blocking issues or failing metrics found"), so this PR introduced it. Likely the brace-less single-line if (!dialog) return; / if (input) input.focus(); — every other conditional in this file uses braces. Needs resolving either way before merge.
Things I checked and found not to be problems
- Nested / stacked dialogs. Both the manager's field-settings dialog (
manager.js:281) and the item dialog areteleported tobody, so they are DOM siblings, not ancestors. Native events do not bubble across a teleport boundary, so a keyup in an inner repeatable dialog will not reach an outer one'skiss-content. No double-save there. saveFieldItem's validation root selector.focusFieldItemcorrectly scopes tokiss-dialog[data-field-render-uid=...], and the!field.multiplecomponent and the dialog never render simultaneously, so the shareduidattribute is not ambiguous.- Cancel
<a>/ submit<button>double-fire. TheBUTTON/Aguard is defensive but harmless: the Cancel<a>has nohrefso it is not keyboard-focusable or Enter-activatable, and the submit<button>fires its click on keydown and unmounts the dialog before keyup. Not a bug, just dead-ish code — I would keep it anyway once the event moves to keydown. select/ checkbox targets.field-select(single) renders a native<select>,field-booleanan<input type="checkbox">. Enter on these does nothing natively, so submitting is defensible. Worth a browser check on Firefox, where Enter also opens/commits a native<select>dropdown — Enter to pick an option would then also close the dialog.- CodeMirror-backed fields (
code,object) are safe from the Enter guard: CM5's input is a real<textarea>, soTEXTAREAcatches it. They are not safe from the autofocus selector, which would target that offscreen 3px textarea (see inline on line 185).
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Its one actionable point — focusFieldItem should skip hidden/disabled/contenteditable="false" candidates rather than trusting querySelector's first match — is valid, and I have added the concrete in-repo examples it did not have (field-boolean's CSS-replaced checkbox, field-code's offscreen CM5 textarea, [contenteditable] matching "false"). But it rated overall merge risk "Low" and its only other note was "please test in a browser"; I think that understates things — it missed the app-tags Enter conflict, the IME issue, the keydown/keyup focus race, and the fact that the autofocus does not fire at all. I would not treat its "otherwise mergeable" as the verdict here.
Suggested direction
Switch to @keydown.enter; bail on evt.isComposing || evt.keyCode === 229; bail on evt.defaultPrevented (this cleanly excludes app-tags and any other control that already handles Enter, without maintaining a tag allowlist); keep the TEXTAREA/isContentEditable guard; preventDefault() before saving. For focus, drive it from a point where the field has actually rendered rather than one $nextTick.
Since the repo has no JS test runner, manual browser verification of at least text, tags, boolean and object with multiple: true seems like the minimum bar before merge.
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…Q#127) - Wait for the nested field-renderer to actually render before focusing, instead of a single $nextTick that fires before FieldTypes resolves - Switch Enter handling from keyup to keydown and bail on evt.defaultPrevented, so widgets like app-tags that already handle Enter on keydown are not double-triggered, and the keydown/keyup focus race around the Add item button no longer applies - Ignore Enter that commits an IME composition (isComposing / keyCode 229) - Skip disabled, contenteditable=false, and offscreen/zero-size controls (e.g. CodeMirror's hidden measuring textarea) when picking the autofocus target - Add braces to the two single-line conditionals that broke the DeepSource JavaScript check
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In `@modules/System/assets/vue-components/fields/renderer.js`:
- Around line 69-72: Update the fieldItem watcher to defer focusFieldItem()
until after the conditional dialog mounts, using $nextTick or an equivalent
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The fieldItem watcher called focusFieldItem() synchronously, but the teleported kiss-dialog it targets is gated by v-if and mounts on the DOM-patch flush, which runs after Vue's default 'pre' watcher flush. focusFieldItem() bailed on the missing dialog without scheduling the bounded requestAnimationFrame retry, so autofocus never ran. Wrapping the call in $nextTick defers it past the DOM patch so the dialog (and its retry loop) is reachable.
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230-233: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRestore the legacy IME guard.
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In `@modules/System/assets/vue-components/fields/renderer.js`:
- Around line 230-233: Update the keyboard-event guard near saveFieldItem so it
also returns when evt.keyCode equals 229, even if evt.isComposing is false;
preserve the existing evt.isComposing behavior and ensure both IME cases bypass
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The repeatable field-item dialog (
FieldRendererinmodules/System/assets/vue-components/fields/renderer.js) is the generic "add/edit item" modal used by every field type withmultiple: true— including the select field's Options settings, which is what issue #127 reports on.Previously pressing Enter inside that dialog did nothing; you had to click "Update item"/"Add item" with the mouse. This PR:
keyup.enterhandler on the dialog content that calls the samesaveFieldItem()method the button uses, so Enter now submits the item.<textarea>or acontenteditableelement, so multi-line inputs still insert a newline on Enter instead of submitting.<button>or<a>(e.g. the Cancel link, or the Save button itself) already has focus and receives the native Enter-triggered click — without this guard, tabbing to Cancel and pressing Enter would close-then-resave, and tabbing to the Save button would double-submit.fieldItemwatcher +nextTick), per the second half of the issue ("input field should be autofocused").Why here and not just the select field
The dialog markup and
saveFieldItem/addFieldItem/editFieldItemmethods are shared by allfield.multiplefield types (select options, tags, object lists, etc.), not justselect. Fixing it at this shared level resolves the reported select-options case and keeps behavior consistent everywhere the same dialog is reused, rather than patching one field type.Test plan
phpis not available in my environment, so I could not boot Cockpit's admin UI to manually click through the dialog in a browser.node --checkon the modified file passes (valid syntax).npm run build-bundle(rollup) against the changed source — it bundles cleanly with no new errors/warnings beyond a pre-existing, unrelatedthis-at-top-level notice in a vendoreddompurify.jsfile. I reverted the generatedapp.bundle.js/app.bundle.cssoutput itself since it isn't meant to be part of this source diff.<fields-renderer>/<field-renderer>(field-nav.js,field-set.js,manager.js,content-preview.js,form.js,batch-edit.js,asset.js) to confirm none of them depend on the previous (no-op) Enter-key behavior inside this dialog, and confirmed viamanager.jsthat the select field's "Options" settings panel renders through this exact samefield.multiple→ dialog path.Closes #127
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