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The button that ignores your clicks

The form looks perfect and the console is silent — but the button won't fire, the inputs won't focus, and nothing on the card responds.

reactcssChewy~20 min
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Fresh from the oven

Clone it down and have a look around.

$git clone https://github.com/loaf-crumbs/button-that-ignores-your-clicks.git
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The scenario

A "Bake a crumb" form: a title field, a difficulty dropdown, and a button that's supposed to add your entry to the batch below. It renders cleanly, it looks finished, and the console stays empty no matter what you do. It just doesn't respond. Clicking the button does nothing. The title field won't take focus when you click it. The dropdown won't open. Every control on the card is inert. The React behind it is ordinary and correct: controlled inputs bound to state, an `onSubmit` that appends to the list, nothing exotic. If you log inside the submit handler, the log never prints — the event isn't reaching the handler at all. The click is going somewhere, just not where you'd expect. Wiring up the handler differently won't help, because the handler was never the problem. The page works in the sense that it has no errors and no broken state. What's broken is more physical than that: something is standing between your cursor and the controls. Get the form responding again — typing, selecting, baking — without sacrificing how the page looks.
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What done looks like

- Clicking the title field focuses it and you can type a title - The difficulty dropdown opens and changes the selection - Pressing "Send to the oven" adds the new crumb to the batch - The page keeps its warm background glow — the fix doesn't strip the look
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