There are so many clicks required to enable RTE can i edit text with just single click
You can extend the Text Component View and trigger onActive with a click instead of dblclick https://github.com/artf/grapesjs/blob/d3256e621bb43a537213ffcd86b10dc0bd070c0b/src/dom_components/view/ComponentTextView.js#L7-L10
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There are so many clicks required to enable RTE can i edit text with just single click i tried by adding attribute contenteditable but storage manager not recognize text changes that way plz hlep
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You can extend the Text Component View and trigger onActive with a click instead of dblclick https://github.com/artf/grapesjs/blob/d3256e621bb43a537213ffcd86b10dc0bd070c0b/src/dom_components/view/ComponentTextView.js#L7-L10
@vidhii16 @fahad157 I was able to get it to work using this code:
<img width="758" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2f9418e8-66f4-43ef-a5ac-428ede52e8a9" />@artf I tried by changing it to click but it not working for me please help

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