Webview with contenteditable cannot be focused programmatically

Question

Trying to do a requestFocus() on the WebView does not work until the user has first clicked on the control.

I know this must be possible as htmlEditor can be focused

Answer 1

you can focus the webview of the HTMLEditor this way:

import com.sun.javafx.scene.web.skin.HTMLEditorSkin;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.application.Platform;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.input.MouseButton;
import javafx.scene.input.MouseEvent;
import javafx.scene.layout.GridPane;
import javafx.scene.web.HTMLEditor;
import javafx.scene.web.WebView;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class FocusTest extends Application {

    public static void main(final String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
        final HTMLEditor editor = new HTMLEditor();
        final WebView editorView = (WebView) editor.lookup(".web-view");

        primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(editor));
        primaryStage.sizeToScene();
        primaryStage.show();

        Platform.runLater(() -> {
            view.fireEvent(new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.MOUSE_PRESSED, 100, 100, 200, 200, MouseButton.PRIMARY, 1, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, null));
            editor.requestFocus();
            view.fireEvent(new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.MOUSE_RELEASED, 100, 100, 200, 200, MouseButton.PRIMARY, 1, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, null));
        });
    }

}