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Quick-add behavior when called from context menu #5783
Description
Current Behavior
I'm not sure whether this should be considered a bug or a feature, since it could help with the node positioning.
If you right-click on the workspace to open the context menu, select Insert > Node, the quick-add dialog will open. Then, if you click elsewhere on the workspace, the quick-add dialog will "be moved" there. And this will repeat until you close the quick-add dialog.
This doesn't happen when opening the quick-add dialog using cmd/ctrl + click. The quick-add dialog will be closed if you click elsewhere.
Screen.Recording.2026-06-04.at.9.43.01.AM.mov
Expected Behavior
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Steps To Reproduce
- Right-click on the workspace to open the context menu
- Select
Insert>Node - Click elsewhere on the workspace
Example flow
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Environment
- Node-RED version: current dev branch (also happens in v4)
- Node.js version: 26.0.0
- npm version: 11.12.1
- Platform/OS: macOS Tahoe 26.5
- Browser: Chrome, Safari, Firefox
Activity
knolleary commentedon Jun 8, 2026
For some reason, the
cancelevent oftypeSearchisn't being triggered in this scenario, so the mouse state isn't being cleared and it thinks we're in QUICK_JOINING mode - so keeps reopening the dialog.I think it's related to event handler ordering - but why its different between the two cases is not obvious to me.