I have a very, very weird issue that only seems to be an issue in Chrome. When a user comes on the website, the user cannot focus any element (via mouse click, if they focus it via tabbing, the elements don't get the 'focused' state either) and that's only an issue in Chrome. That is, until the user resizes the window, minimizes the window, opens a new tab, opens developer tools, etc. Reloading the page does nothing. However, as soon as focus is "enabled", the user can navigate/refresh with purging cache, etc., close the browser and open it again, and everything works normally - the elements get the 'focused' state normally.
This behaviour can only be reproduced in Chrome and not on localhost.
The difference between localhost and beta environment is:
- beta env requires authentication (basic http auth)
- files in development env are concated in a single JS and single CSS file and both are minimized
- beta env includes hotjar, while there's no hotjar on localhost
There are no custom event listeners that would listen for the 'resize' event. There are no errors in console and all javascript that doesn't depend on focused element state gets executed correctly. Hover events and all CSS styling that depends on hovered state all work correctly.
The main issue is, that a form which has to be filled out and includes a datepicker, cannot be filled out and thus the users can't really interact with the page. Datepicker doesn't open and, as the input elements don't get the focused state, they don't visually change (CSS :focused selector isn't working either) and thus give the impression to the user that they cannot type in the normal text inputs (which works, after clicking on the input, it is possible to type in the input).
I have tried removing hotjar and the problem persisted. The only thing that made the problem go away was removing the basic auth, however, that is not an option in this stage (it's a closed beta test, so we need to limit the access only to the users with password). I also find it extremely odd that basic auth would interfere with the focused state of elements, especially as the error persists after you refresh and only goes away as soon as you interact with browser itself (minimize, open new tab, do anything that resizes your browser window or document), after that it works correctly and there are no errors whatsoever.
The problem only started to appear recently, but I do not believe it's an issue with the app itself, as I tried rolling back to a couple months old build and the problem persists. All of that makes me believe it's a bug in Chrome, but what can be done to fix it?
EDIT: I also tried to add autofocus property to an input element and, in beta environment, it doesn't get focused.