Highlighting is lost after clicking on one of multiple highlights

[rmarcano]

What did you expect to happen?

All occurrences of an issue to remain highlighted after clicking on the editor to correct said issues.

What happened instead?

When a readability issue appears multiple times, the highlighting is lost when clicking on one of them.

How can we reproduce this behavior?

1. In a piece of content insert several long sentences. This should trigger the warning: "X% of the sentences contain more than 20 words, which is more than the recommended maximum of 25%. Try to shorten the sentences."

2. Highlight the offending sentences using the eye icon. Notice that all occurrences of long sentences are highlighted.

3. Scroll up to the post editor to correct the first of the offending long sentences. Note that the highlighting on all other offending sentences are lost, forcing the user scroll back down and click the "Eye" icon once again, scroll back up, fix the sentence. Repeat for every single occurrence of the issue.

Technical info

• Platform: WordPress
• Platform version: 4.8.1
• Yoast SEO version:5.1

[rmarcano]

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[rmarcano]

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[omarreiss]

This was a compromise we took since we found it very hard to keep the cursor in place while highlighting and wanted to prevent potential bugs that would arise in association with it. At the same time, we are looking if this could potentially be facilitated in the new WordPress editor (Gutenberg). See WordPress/gutenberg#2893

[rmarcano]

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[michaelbriantina]

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[michaelbriantina]

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[moorscode]

We have been working hard to implement the annotations API and highlighting in Gutenberg.
The current state is that it is implemented and the highlights will remain even when clicking inside the content. This only works with Gutenberg and will not be implemented in the Classic editor for the same reasons mentioned before.