No id for elements not having styles but with `script`, which results in script not running for those elements
The issue is caused by the use of jsInHtml: false and how the internal JS generator is handled. I'll try to fix it for the next release.
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GrapesJS version[X] I confirm to use the latest version of GrapesJSWhat browser are you using? Chrome latestReproducible demo link https://github.com/padcom/grapesjs-no-id-for-element-exampleDescribe the bug When creating custom GrapesJS components, if those components have the script() (runtime behavior for component) and no styles are being applied to that component then the root element doesn't have the id attribute which then fails the document.querySelectorAll('#<id-goes-here') and the runtime script is not called. In the given example, I have created a special custom element, called <co...
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The issue is caused by the use of jsInHtml: false and how the internal JS generator is handled.
I'll try to fix it for the next release.
The issue you've described is a known behavior in GrapesJS related to how component IDs are generated and optimized during HTML serialization. When a custom component has a script() function but no explicit styles applied to it, GrapesJS might omit the id attribute from the component's root element...
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