How I am supposed to know how to close the tag selector on mobile?

This has been bothering me for a long time.

On mobile, when you add a tag, the selector remains open. But there’s no obvious way to close the selector so we can write our content.

I know the selector can be closed by tapping the tag input. But that’s not intuitive. When you want to close a selector on the internet, there are usually multiple ways:

  • You tap on an “empty” area
  • You click a icon if there’s one
  • It automatically closes after a selection (wouldn’t necessarily work on Discourse, as we can select multiple tags, even if selecting only 1 is more common on meta)

Even if I know I can click the input, it’s so non-intuitive that it keeps bothering me, and I still need to think/remember how to close the selector.

How could this be improved?

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Yeah, on mobile I’m forced to dismiss the keyboard and then tap outside the drop-down list.

It’s not very convenient.

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I use the split second timing that it disappears after choosing a tag to close it. Definitely not ideal.