When setting mode from readonly to design, tinymce steals focus

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

Bug

What is the current behavior?

• When tinymce is in readonly mode
• If it is set to design mode
• It automatically sets focus to the text field

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem via fiddle.tinymce.com or similar.

Here is a demo: http://fiddle.tinymce.com/f2gaab/1

• Tinymce is set to readonly on load
• Click “toggle enabled” button to set tinymce to “design” mode

What is the expected behavior?

Tinymce should not take focus when set to design mode.

I have a form that has many fields disabled, one of which is a tinymce text area. When enabling the form, all fields become enabled, but tinymce is not the first field in the form, and it is unexpected that it would take focus.

Which versions of TinyMCE, and which browser / OS are affected by this issue? Did this work in previous versions of TinyMCE?

Versions: I have tested this in edge and 4.8.3 in the fiddle. Browser: Chrome OS: Mac OSX

I don’t know if this worked in previous versions.

[javifm86]

Waiting for that config! Very annoying behaviour.

[gmqz]

setMode(mode) method (v4) triggers a focus event after changing from readonly to design mode. Seems V5 doesn’t have this unexpected behavior becose setMode method was deprecated and use editor.mode.set(mode) instead.

Workaround v4

Instead use setMode() you can set the contenteditable property manually

editor.getBody().setAttribute(‘contenteditable’, true\false);