Text/markdown widget doesn't leave edit mode when user clicks elsewhere in same row (6.0.0rc2)

[sfirke]

Bug description

• Create a dashboard
• Add a text/markdown box, click in it
• Click away, elsewhere in the row - the box stays in edit view
• Only when the user clicks elsewhere on the screen above or below the row does it revert to view mode

That's how I was able to produce this screenshot with two charts in edit mode:

This is a regression from 4.1.3. In 4.1.3, if you put two such widgets next to each other, when you click on one, the other correctly changes from edit to view mode. The correct behavior is for clicking anywhere outside the widget to revert it to edit mode.

Now that I know the deal, I can work around it, but it was frustrating until I figured out the pattern.

Screenshots/recordings

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Superset version

master / latest-dev

Python version

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Node version

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Browser

Firefox

Additional context

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Checklist

• I have searched Superset docs and Slack and didn't find a solution to my problem.
• I have searched the GitHub issue tracker and didn't find a similar bug report.
• I have checked Superset's logs for errors and if I found a relevant Python stacktrace, I included it here as text in the "additional context" section.

[dosubot]

This regression in the Text/Markdown widget's edit/view mode was recently fixed in the main branch. The issue was caused by changes to how the widget detects clicks outside itself, which prevented it from exiting edit mode when clicking elsewhere in the same row. The fix is included in PR #35336, merged on 2025-10-02, which restores the expected behavior: clicking anywhere outside the widget (including in the same row) now exits edit mode as it did in 4.1.3. Tests were also added to ensure this works as intended.

If you're running the latest master or a build after this PR, you should see the correct behavior. If not, updating to a version that includes this fix will resolve the issue.

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[sfirke]

Good job Dosubot! I see that has been cherried to 6.0.0 branch so I will close this.