Fix unexpected behaviour of the cursor

components/dash-core-components/src/components/Input.react.js

@@ -184,16 +184,23 @@ export default class Input extends PureComponent {
 
  onChange() {
  const {debounce} = this.props;
- if (debounce) {
- if (Number.isFinite(debounce)) {
- this.debounceEvent(debounce);
- }
- if (this.props.type !== 'number') {
- this.setState({value: this.input.current.value});
+ const input = this.input.current;
+ const cursorPosition = input.selectionStart;
+ const currentValue = input.value;
+ this.setState({value: currentValue}, () => {
+ if (debounce) {
+ if (Number.isFinite(debounce)) {
+ this.debounceEvent(debounce);
+ }
+ if (this.props.type !== 'number') {
+ setTimeout(() => {
+ input.setSelectionRange(cursorPosition, cursorPosition);
+ }, 0);
+ }
+ } else {
+ this.onEvent();
  }
- } else {
- this.onEvent();
- }
+ });
  }
 }
 

components/dash-core-components/tests/integration/input/test_input_basics.py

@@ -103,3 +103,72 @@ def test_inbs003_styles_are_scoped(dash_dcc):
  dash_outline_css = dash_input.value_of_css_property("outline")
 
  assert external_outline_css != dash_outline_css
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+ "initial_text, invalid_char, cursor_position_before, expected_text, expected_cursor_position",
+ [
+ ("abcdddef", "/", 2, "ab/cdddef", 3),
+ ("abcdef", "$", 2, "ab$cdef", 3),
+ ("abcdef", "$", 3, "abc$def", 4),
+ ("abcdef", "A", 4, "abcdAef", 5), # valid character
+ ],
+)
+def test_inbs004_cursor_position_on_invalid_input(
+ dash_dcc,
+ initial_text,
+ invalid_char,
+ cursor_position_before,
+ expected_text,
+ expected_cursor_position,
+):
+ app = Dash(__name__)
+
+ app.layout = html.Div(
+ [
+ dcc.Input(
+ id="test-input",
+ type="text",
+ placeholder="File name",
+ className="create_file_input",
+ pattern="[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*",
+ ),
+ html.Div(id="output"),
+ ]
+ )
+
+ dash_dcc.start_server(app)
+ input_elem = dash_dcc.find_element("#test-input")
+
+ input_elem.send_keys(initial_text)
+ assert (
+ input_elem.get_attribute("value") == initial_text
+ ), "Initial text should match"
+
+ dash_dcc.driver.execute_script(
+ f"""
+ var elem = arguments[0];
+ elem.setSelectionRange({cursor_position_before}, {cursor_position_before});
+ elem.focus();
+ """,
+ input_elem,
+ )
+
+ input_elem.send_keys(invalid_char)
+
+ assert (
+ input_elem.get_attribute("value") == expected_text
+ ), f"Input should be {expected_text}"
+
+ cursor_position = dash_dcc.driver.execute_script(
+ """
+ var elem = arguments[0];
+ return elem.selectionStart;
+ """,
+ input_elem,
+ )
+
+ assert (
+ cursor_position == expected_cursor_position
+ ), f"Cursor should be at position {expected_cursor_position}"
+
+ assert dash_dcc.get_logs() == []