angular cdk drag drop - contenteditable is not working with cdkDrag

Question

I am trying to use a div element tag and make it behave as a textarea with css.

#textarea {
    -moz-appearance: textfield-multiline;   ------------ card.component.css
    -webkit-appearance: textarea;
    border: 1px solid gray;
    font: medium -moz-fixed;
    font: -webkit-small-control;
    height: 28px;
    overflow: auto;
    padding: 2px;
    resize: both;
    width: 400px;
}

<div id="textarea" contenteditable>I look like a textarea</div>  ---- card.component.html

But i am using cdkDrag on my card from parent component(Category component)

<div cdkDrag class="col-sm-12 px-2 pb-2">
  <app-card (cardEvent)="deleteCard($event)" [card]="card">

I found this link contenteditable not working properly with cdkDrag on google-chrome explaining the same, but couldn't get any answer.

Answer 1

CDK's DragRef listens to the mousedown event, so you can add a (mousedown)="$event.stopPropagation()" handler to your contenteditable div to prevent that event from bubbling up to the element that has the cdkDrag directive on it.

edit: Here's the call site in the CDK DragRef code: https://github.com/angular/components/blob/master/src/cdk/drag-drop/drag-ref.ts#L775