# Is there a way to revert the behaviour of closing the editor window?

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**Created:** [2 March 2026 22:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-revert-the-behaviour-of-closing-the-editor-window/100485 "2026-03-02T22:26:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![hazymat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/hazymat/32/108159_2.png) [@hazymat](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hazymat)\
**Post date:** [2 March 2026 22:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-revert-the-behaviour-of-closing-the-editor-window/100485/1 "2026-03-02T22:26:41Z")

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I apologise in advance, as I know @knolleary consulted with users carefully with his [request for feedback](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/request-for-feedback-closing-the-edit-dialog/96849), and others have [posted about this](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/clicking-outside-the-editor-no-longer-works/97858), and there’s currently an [open issue](https://github.com/node-red/node-red/issues/5247) on Github.

So please feel free to lock this thread.

But first…

1. Is there a way to revert to the previous behaviour, without actually having to downgrade?
2. Which version should I downgrade to, if that's the only way to revert to the behaviour?

Thanks

Mat

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**Author:** ![Sean-McG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/sean-mcg/32/54677_2.png) [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)\
**Post date:** [3 March 2026 02:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-revert-the-behaviour-of-closing-the-editor-window/100485/2 "2026-03-03T02:25:16Z")

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4.0.9 I think

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**Author:** ![gregorius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gregorius/32/73816_2.png) [@gregorius](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gregorius)\
**Post date:** [3 March 2026 07:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-revert-the-behaviour-of-closing-the-editor-window/100485/3 "2026-03-03T07:54:23Z")

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4.0.9 - it's the last version before telemetry and editor confirm close.

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**Author:** ![Steve-Mcl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/steve-mcl/32/4826_2.png) [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)\
**Post date:** [3 March 2026 08:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-revert-the-behaviour-of-closing-the-editor-window/100485/4 "2026-03-03T08:10:11Z")

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> [@hazymat](#):
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> Is there a way to revert to the previous behaviour, without actually having to downgrade

Downgrading is a bit drastic and I don't recommend it for several reasons. Most important one being CVEs

Since the default action of click outside was essentially the same as clicking **done** , you could use the predefined/default shortcut `CTRL-ENTER`

Alternatively, you could apply a shortcut key such as `ESC`. or `ALT-C` to the edit cancel action. In fact, by default, the shortcut is set to `CTRL-ESC` (so long as you are not using Windows because that just opens the start menu and cannot be overridden by a browser)

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [3 March 2026 08:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-revert-the-behaviour-of-closing-the-editor-window/100485/5 "2026-03-03T08:43:12Z")

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... but yes this is being re-looked at in the light of all the feedback.

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**Author:** ![hazymat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/hazymat/32/108159_2.png) [@hazymat](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hazymat)\
**Post date:** [3 March 2026 09:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-revert-the-behaviour-of-closing-the-editor-window/100485/6 "2026-03-03T09:00:15Z")

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Thank you @Steve-Mcl

The problem I am finding most often is that Ctrl-Enter (which I have always used in the past) doesn’t work when the editor window doesn’t have focus.

For me, this happens way more than I ever realised, for example when I’m multitasking and click into a different browser window or application, then come back to Node RED editor. (Perhaps it has happened after clicking out of the editor window first, but as a constantly-distracted person I tend to click around screens a lot without being fully conscious of this!) It’s then an additional mouse click to then have to do a keyboard shortcut.

Is there a keyboard shortcut to being editor window into focus, so it may then be closed with a keyboard shortcut?

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**Author:** ![Steve-Mcl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/steve-mcl/32/4826_2.png) [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)\
**Post date:** [3 March 2026 09:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-revert-the-behaviour-of-closing-the-editor-window/100485/7 "2026-03-03T09:25:14Z")

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> [@hazymat](#):
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> Is there a keyboard shortcut to being editor window into focus, so it may then be closed with a keyboard shortcut?

No, but you can set the scope of the shortcut to work globally.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/7/b/7b5f3dd72ec315100ad6c2b84a8f3fc63bb95864.png)

Just double check that CTRL-ENTER is not used anywhere else.

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**Author:** ![hazymat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/hazymat/32/108159_2.png) [@hazymat](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hazymat)\
**Post date:** [3 March 2026 09:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-revert-the-behaviour-of-closing-the-editor-window/100485/8 "2026-03-03T09:35:14Z")

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> [@Steve-Mcl](#):
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> you can set the scope of the shortcut to work globally

Super! Didn't know that was possible - that has made things a whole lot more usable for me 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [17 March 2026 09:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-revert-the-behaviour-of-closing-the-editor-window/100485/9 "2026-03-17T09:35:22Z")

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