Slate: can't programmatically focus the editor anymore...

[cvlmtg]

Do you want to request a _feature_ or report a _bug_?

feature

What's the current behavior?

There's no longer a way to give programmatically focus to the content-editable element.
In slate 0.4x it was possibile to attach a ref to the <Editor> component. This is no longer the case because <Editable> is a stateless component

Slate: 0.57.0
Browser: all
OS: all

What's the expected behavior?

It should be possible to give focus programmatically to the editor

[Killavus]

Isn't ReactEditor.focus function does what you want to achieve?

[cvlmtg]

@Killavus no idea because it's basically undocumented and I didn't know it existed. I'll try it.

[cvlmtg]

@Killavus yep it works, thanks!

[MarkPare]

Is this documented anywhere?

[paullaffitte]

@MarkPare I found that you can import ReactEditor from slate-react and it has a focus method. Here is how you can use it.

import { ReactEditor } from 'slate-react';
ReactEditor.focus(editor);

With editor being an instance of your editor. You can get it from createEditor() or useSlate() depending on where do you need it.

[dons20]

This really needs to be documented...