From 5cb5cb8cb2013fb36962a26310554b607bed2bc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mitchell Austin <mr.fye@oneandthesame.net>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 12:56:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Remove forced focus of `InputControl` on mousedown

---
 .../src/input-control/input-field.tsx          | 18 ------------------
 .../components/src/input-control/test/index.js | 17 -----------------
 2 files changed, 35 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/components/src/input-control/input-field.tsx b/packages/components/src/input-control/input-field.tsx
index d9b5a293a0fa6e..2b731d1c866aca 100644
--- a/packages/components/src/input-control/input-field.tsx
+++ b/packages/components/src/input-control/input-field.tsx
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import type {
 	PointerEvent,
 	FocusEvent,
 	ForwardedRef,
-	MouseEvent,
 } from 'react';
 
 /**
@@ -187,22 +186,6 @@ function InputField(
 	);
 
 	const dragProps = isDragEnabled ? dragGestureProps() : {};
-	/*
-	 * Works around the odd UA (e.g. Firefox) that does not focus inputs of
-	 * type=number when their spinner arrows are pressed.
-	 */
-	let handleOnMouseDown;
-	if ( type === 'number' ) {
-		handleOnMouseDown = ( event: MouseEvent< HTMLInputElement > ) => {
-			props.onMouseDown?.( event );
-			if (
-				event.currentTarget !==
-				event.currentTarget.ownerDocument.activeElement
-			) {
-				event.currentTarget.focus();
-			}
-		};
-	}
 
 	return (
 		<Input
@@ -216,7 +199,6 @@ function InputField(
 			onBlur={ handleOnBlur }
 			onChange={ handleOnChange }
 			onKeyDown={ withIgnoreIMEEvents( handleOnKeyDown ) }
-			onMouseDown={ handleOnMouseDown }
 			ref={ ref }
 			inputSize={ size }
 			// Fallback to `''` to avoid "uncontrolled to controlled" warning.
diff --git a/packages/components/src/input-control/test/index.js b/packages/components/src/input-control/test/index.js
index 46332eb6eea704..395da482d43ac8 100644
--- a/packages/components/src/input-control/test/index.js
+++ b/packages/components/src/input-control/test/index.js
@@ -72,23 +72,6 @@ describe( 'InputControl', () => {
 		} );
 	} );
 
-	describe( 'Ensurance of focus for number inputs', () => {
-		it( 'should focus its input on mousedown events', async () => {
-			const user = await userEvent.setup();
-			const spy = jest.fn();
-			render( <InputControl type="number" onFocus={ spy } /> );
-			const target = getInput();
-
-			// Hovers the input and presses (without releasing) primary button.
-			await user.pointer( [
-				{ target },
-				{ keys: '[MouseLeft]', target },
-			] );
-
-			expect( spy ).toHaveBeenCalledTimes( 1 );
-		} );
-	} );
-
 	describe( 'Value', () => {
 		it( 'should update value onChange', async () => {
 			const user = await userEvent.setup();

From ba7bea27e81c7aa5c8ae07a2afc8578d3c722184 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco Ciampini <marco.ciampo@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 11:12:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] CHANGELOG

---
 packages/components/CHANGELOG.md | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/components/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/components/CHANGELOG.md
index 4e9ddc5a729127..14cbfeaccc3370 100644
--- a/packages/components/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/components/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 -   Expose `normalizeTextString` method as private API ([#70178](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70178)).
 -   Mark `withIgnoreIMEEvents()` function as private API ([#70056](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70056)).
+-   `InputControl`: remove unnecessary forced focus on `mousedown` ([#41118](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/41118)).
 
 ## 29.10.0 (2025-05-22)
 
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@
 -   `ToggleGroupControl`: Fix active background for empty string value ([#69969](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/69969)).
 -   `ItemGroup`: Fix double border in `ItemGroup` when last item is focused ([#70021](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70021)).
 -   `__experimentalUseCustomUnits `: Don't mutate 'ALL_CSS_UNITS' default value ([#70037](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70037)).
--  `FocalPointPicker`: Fix SVG display when it doesn't provide a width attribute ([#70061](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70061))..
+-   `FocalPointPicker`: Fix SVG display when it doesn't provide a width attribute ([#70061](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/70061))..
 
 ### Internal