# Getting some glitches in the editor

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/getting-some-glitches-in-the-editor/19402>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [20 December 2019 17:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/getting-some-glitches-in-the-editor/19402 "2019-12-20T17:06:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [20 December 2019 17:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/getting-some-glitches-in-the-editor/19402/1 "2019-12-20T17:06:00Z")

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I've noticed a few times over past few days (Probably about 5 times now) that I'm getting the "grayed out" effect (that you get when editing a node for instance) but not when editing

The only way of clearing seems to be doing a browser refresh as not buttons are active or anything

I'm going to try and pay more attention as to when it happens (just happened now on my Pi4 using /browser on same Pi4)

Just putting it out there in case its not just me

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/2/2ca292500f2631a66a3067dfd7184e3f8d03d661.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [20 December 2019 17:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/getting-some-glitches-in-the-editor/19402/2 "2019-12-20T17:10:30Z")

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Always worth checking the browser's JavaScript console for any error messages when you see odd things in the editor.

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**Author:** ![Dave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dave/32/10827_2.png) [@Dave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Dave)\
**Post date:** [20 December 2019 18:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/getting-some-glitches-in-the-editor/19402/3 "2019-12-20T18:00:33Z")

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I have also experienced this, just set up a new raspberry pi4, when I import a flow from another pi that has a unknown node, and then go to manage palette and install the node , I get the gray screen when the node has been installed, the only thing I can do is reload the screen but as the flow has not been saved I have to import the flow again, obviously this time the node is 'not' unknown because I installed it so everything works.

The big issue is when you have several unknown nodes like the first flow i installed there were 7 unknown nodes so I had to re import the flow 7 times each time installing a further node until they were all there.

I don't know if the following is of any use

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at vendor.js:246  
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588vendor.js:246 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'getAttributeNS' of null  
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at SVGGElement. (red.min.js:16)  
at vendor.js:246  
at Tn (vendor.js:244)  
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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [20 December 2019 18:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/getting-some-glitches-in-the-editor/19402/4 "2019-12-20T18:13:41Z")

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> [@Dave](#):
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> when I import a flow from another pi that has a unknown node, and then go to manage palette and install the node , I get the gray screen when the node has been installed,

That was exactly what happened with me on this occasion  
(Only diff was I was importing a flow from the forum that had a dashboard node in it and I didn't have dashboard installed)

And now I come to remember that it has previously happened when I was importing from Win10 instance to my Pi4 - it had the counter node on original but not on Pi 4 so had to install it

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [20 December 2019 18:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/getting-some-glitches-in-the-editor/19402/5 "2019-12-20T18:57:37Z")

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What browser?

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [20 December 2019 19:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/getting-some-glitches-in-the-editor/19402/6 "2019-12-20T19:25:32Z")

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Chromium on my Pi4

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [20 December 2019 20:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/getting-some-glitches-in-the-editor/19402/7 "2019-12-20T20:31:11Z")

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I've hit a similar thing importing a flow but not having a contrib node. Go to the palette and install it and the screen goes grey. I'll see if I can reprocude it.  
This is on macOD with Safari.

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**Author:** ![Dave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dave/32/10827_2.png) [@Dave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Dave)\
**Post date:** [20 December 2019 21:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/getting-some-glitches-in-the-editor/19402/8 "2019-12-20T21:52:11Z")

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For me windows10 with google chrome