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[Bug] Missing `mousedown` event bubbling after v10 upgrade

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
react, typescript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start with src/Marks/Mark.tsx around lines 33-35 and inspect the stopPropagation() call mentioned in the issue. Reproduce the event sequence in the linked CodeSandbox or with browser event monitoring, then verify that clicking a handle produces the expected mousedown, mouseup, and click bubbling behavior.

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Description

Current behaviour

Currently, when version 10.x of rc-slider is being used, the mousedown event when clicking the handles is not bubbling. This causes issues with other libraries, for example react-modal:
react-modal uses the mousedown event to decide whether the user started a mouse action in the modal or outside, which should close the modal: https://github.com/reactjs/react-modal/blob/master/src/components/ModalPortal.js#L306-L310. Without the bubbling, dragging the handle outside the modal component of react-modal will always trigger the modal close since the mouseup and click events are still bubbling.

Expected behaviour

The mousedown event should bubble so other handlers can work as they used to in preceding versions. Otherwise, the mouseup and click events should also be intercepted for the sake of consistency - this would be a breaking change though.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Watch the mousedown, mouseup and click events. There are multiple ways to do this, for example the monitorEvents() function in the browser console.
  2. Click and let go of the handle of the rc-slider component with < v10 of rc-slider.
  3. Observe the reported events.
  4. Repeat steps 1 - 3 with >= v10 of rc-slider
  5. Compare the reported events and notice the missing mousedown event.

You can use this prepared CodeSandbox to reproduce the bug.

Reported events with < v10 of rc-slider:
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Reported events with >= v10 of rc-slider:
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Hints

This stopPropagation() call likely causes the missing mousedown event.

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