# Strange light gray node
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/strange-light-gray-node/99305
**Category:** General
**Created:** [7 October 2025 16:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/strange-light-gray-node/99305 "2025-10-07T16:28:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Filip\_Top](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Filip_Top)
#### Post date: [7 October 2025 16:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/strange-light-gray-node/99305/1 "2025-10-07T16:28:13Z")
What is this light gray node? Because of this I cannot make any new connections between nodes
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### Author:  [@AllanOricil](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/AllanOricil)
#### Post date: [7 October 2025 16:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/strange-light-gray-node/99305/2 "2025-10-07T16:33:10Z")
It is a feature for "quick node placement". It allows you to quickly add a new node by typing its name, instead of draging it from the palette. But for some weird reason there is no input rendered for you.
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [7 October 2025 17:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/strange-light-gray-node/99305/3 "2025-10-07T17:30:24Z")
If you are stuck then try refreshing the browser page, I suspect that will sort it.
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### Author:  [@Filip\_Top](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Filip_Top)
#### Post date: [7 October 2025 20:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/strange-light-gray-node/99305/4 "2025-10-07T20:40:00Z")
Sometimes the most simple things to the trick 🙂
Thank you Colin.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [21 October 2025 20:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/strange-light-gray-node/99305/5 "2025-10-21T20:40:51Z")
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