Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend

1.28.0 / v1.26.13 - 'Esc' key continuously fails to exit subgraphs

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#5,656 opened on Sep 19, 2025

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Potential Bugarea:subgraphhelp wanted

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Description

Pressing the Escape key to exit subgraphs always fails at some point.

After some arbitrary amount of time of doing something/anything it just randomly stops working and until the page is refreshed.

No insight of the cause. No errors.

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Research direction
Investigate keyboard event handling for Escape key in subgraph components. Check for event listeners, focus management, or propagation issues. Look for recent changes that might have introduced this bug.
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typescript
Domain
frontend
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2
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1-3 hours
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