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When using `user.click` in `@testing-library/angular`, an error is thrown

See original GitHub issue

I have the following test written to test a pagination component:

import user from '@testing-library/user-event';

...

    const nextPageBtn = screen.getByLabelText('Go to the next page');
    user.click(nextPageBtn);
    expect(pageIndexChange).toHaveBeenCalledWith(3);

    const previousPageBtn = screen.getByLabelText('Go to the previous page');
    user.click(previousPageBtn);
    expect(pageIndexChange).toHaveBeenCalledWith(2);

    const firstPageBtn = screen.getByLabelText('Go to the first page');
    user.click(firstPageBtn);
    expect(pageIndexChange).toHaveBeenCalledWith(0);

    const lastPageBtn = screen.getByLabelText('Go to the last page');
    user.click(lastPageBtn);
    expect(pageIndexChange).toHaveBeenCalledWith(4);

With one of the buttons being formed like this:

  <button
    type="button"
    class="btn-paginator btn-side ml-1"
    [disabled]="pageIndex === lastPage"
    (click)="gotoPage(lastPage)"
    [attr.aria-label]="'Go to the last page' | translate"
  >
    <i class="fas fa-angle-double-right" aria-hidden="true"></i>
  </button>

(With the translate pipe coming from ngx-translate)

However, when I run the tests, I get the following error.

● PaginatorComponent › should handle paging forward and backward properly

    TypeError: Cannot read property '_defaultView' of undefined

      90 |
      91 |     const previousPageBtn = screen.getByLabelText('Go to the previous page');
    > 92 |     user.click(previousPageBtn);
         |          ^
      93 |     expect(pageIndexChange).toHaveBeenCalledWith(2);
      94 |
      95 |     const firstPageBtn = screen.getByLabelText('Go to the first page');

      at Object.exports.fireFocusEventWithTargetAdjustment (node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/living/helpers/focusing.js:71:33)
      at HTMLButtonElementImpl.blur (node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/living/nodes/HTMLAndSVGElementShared-impl.js:52:14)
      at HTMLButtonElement.blur (node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/living/generated/HTMLElement.js:38:23)
      at clickElement (node_modules/@testing-library/user-event/dist/index.js:71:49)
      at Object.click (node_modules/@testing-library/user-event/dist/index.js:214:9)
      at src/app/@shared/paginator/paginator.component.spec.ts:92:10
      at fulfilled (node_modules/tslib/tslib.js:110:62)
      at ZoneDelegate.Object.<anonymous>.ZoneDelegate.invoke (node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone.js:386:30)
      at ProxyZoneSpec.Object.<anonymous>.ProxyZoneSpec.onInvoke (node_modules/zone.js/dist/proxy.js:117:43)

However, if I switch from user.click to fireEvent from @testing-library/angular, I get no such error and the tests pass