Cursor missing when clicking in Text Area #6195
Description
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The bug
👉 MVE: https://github.com/turkishmaid/testarea
Click in the first line of the TextArea. Cursor appears. Move around with arrow keys. Works fine.
Click further down in the Textarea. No cursor. Use right arrow. Cursor appears. Use left arrow. Cursor is gone. Use left arrow again. Cursor is back. But whatever you naviagte from now on, be it by click or by arrow key: Any character where you click is cursed: No cursor at this position anymore. Except it is in the very beginning of the text.
✅ It will be helpful if you run the following command and paste the results:
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# Textual Diagnostics
## Versions
| Name | Value |
|---------|--------|
| Textual | 6.4.0 |
| Rich | 14.2.0 |
## Python
| Name | Value |
|----------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Version | 3.13.7 |
| Implementation | CPython |
| Compiler | Clang 17.0.0 (clang-1700.0.13.3) |
| Executable | ~/clonezoo/github/turkishmaid/testarea/venv/bin/python3.13
## Operating System
| Name | Value |
|---------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| System | Darwin |
| Release | 24.5.0 |
| Version | Darwin Kernel Version 24.5.0: Tue Apr 22 19:54:26 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.121.6~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T8112 |
## Terminal
| Name | Value |
|----------------------|------------------|
| Terminal Application | vscode (1.105.1) |
| TERM | xterm-256color |
| COLORTERM | truecolor |
| FORCE_COLOR | *Not set* |
| NO_COLOR | *Not set* |
## Rich Console options
| Name | Value |
|----------------|----------------------|
| size | width=101, height=15 |
| legacy_windows | False |
| min_width | 1 |
| max_width | 101 |
| is_terminal | True |
| encoding | utf-8 |
| max_height | 15 |
| justify | None |
| overflow | None |
| no_wrap | False |
| highlight | None |
| markup | None |
| height | None |
If you don't have the textual command on your path, you may have forgotten to install the textual-dev package.
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