In node-red@latest, I can no longer close the editor when I click outside the editor, now I have to click either cancel or done. Can it be made to work again?

See this long thread for the explanation [image] Request for feedback: Closing the Edit Dialog Core Development A PR has been proposed to change a behaviour in the editor and I wanted to get wider feedback. Currently, if you have a node's edit dialog open, clicking outs…

There is a default shortcut of ctrl+esc you can use to close and discard changes and ctrl+enter to close and accept changes. if you are are working on windows ctrl+esc will simply open the windows start menu (browser's are not allowed to take that shortcut) but you can change it in the settings to…

Now more work than I'm used to. I hate when clicks are added to clicks to clicks to get something done. Maybe I should go back to a version that doesn't have it and stick with it.

@Frida this change was made in @next (4.1.0-beta.2) not @latest (4.0.9) As a beta it's out there to get feedback on the changes prior to the final release. Thank you for sharing your feedback. We'll look at how we can improve for the final release.

Sorry, I'm using @next (4.1.0-beta.2) when I discovered it, We always have reload before Deploy if we regret something.

This is really not ergonomic Please add the option to have it the way it used to be I downgraded but i’d rather not be stuck to that version forever.

[image] spacerabbit: Please add the option to have it the way it used to be, and maybe another option, instead of cancel it could also accept the changes ? I thought that clicking outside used to accept the changes, which might not be what is intended and is the reason it was changed.

I was misled by this “Originally we treated a click outside the dialog as a 'cancel' - but we had complaints that it was then too easy to accidentally loose changes - so the current behaviour was set. The PR proposes…” I edited my message Please add an option to have the classic behavior …

This way? [image] Request for feedback: Closing the Edit Dialog Core Development To satisfy everyone, a compromise would be: ctrl-enter: saves changes and closes the edit box. ctrl-escape: discards changes and closes the edit box. (actual default keys) A ne…

I was a beginner myself once, and I learned how the editor worked. Why do all editors have to look the same?

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Clicking outside the editor no longer works

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dceejay 29 June 2025 07:10 2

See this long thread for the explanation

Topic		Replies	Views
Request for feedback: Closing the Edit Dialog Core Development	28	614	1 August 2025
Is there a way to revert the behaviour of closing the editor window? General	8	81	17 March 2026
Escape key to cancel out of edit node dialog Feature Requests	5	271	7 August 2023
Feature Suggestion: Deploy from Node editor Feature Requests	5	514	23 January 2021
Save and deploy General node-red-dashboard	5	817	28 March 2022

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Clicking outside the editor no longer works

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