The textarea currently has a very small clickable area, which makes it hard to be activated with a click. Other themes don't have this issue.

I updated the mouse cursor to text for the content part. Clicking that should focus the editor.

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nit: Is it intentional that the whole RTE flashes with a blue outline when opening the color picker? It looks a bit distracting.

Shouldn't the toolbar button get an outline instead?

Is it intentional that the whole RTE flashes with a blue outline when opening the color picker? It looks a bit distracting.

I would assume that the editor was already focused when the user opens the color picker, so it wouldn't be flashing.

I didn't want to have the whole component to have a focus outline when the keyboard focus is not in the actual editor, if it's in one of the toolbar buttons. But I also didn't want the outline to flash when the user uses the toolbar buttons with the mouse to style some selected text, for example, making something bold.

Shouldn't the toolbar button get an outline instead?

I don't think so. When they are focused with the keyboard, then they do.

This ticket/PR has been released with Vaadin 25.0.0-alpha14.