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Cursor should be in the "Add a category" blank when I select "Categories" from the page setting menu
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Description

How it works now:

  1. Open a page in VisualEditor.
  2. Open Categories dialog.
  3. Take hands off keyboard to click in the 'Add a category' field.
  4. Type the name of the category.

How it ought to work:

  1. Open a page in VisualEditor.
  2. Open Categories dialog.
  3. Type the name of the category.

Event Timeline

Whatamidoing-WMF raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.
Whatamidoing-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)

Reproducible consistently in Firefox. It looked like it was working the way that IMO it should work exactly once (the first time) in Safari 9, but never since then.

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matmarex subscribed.

This works for me today in all browsers I tested (Chrome, Firefox, Edge). Either we fixed it or the browsers did, no idea when.