Showing the focus ring around read-only annotations

Nutrient Web SDK only shows a selection outline around annotations that are editable and can be moved/resized. If an annotation is made read-only using isEditableAnnotation or editableAnnotationTypes, this outline won’t be shown. If you still want to show a focus ring when the user clicks a read-only annotation, you can work around this by using custom renderers to create a clickable area on top of the annotation and setting focus in the click handler:

const instance = await PSPDFKit.load({
  customRenderers: {
    Annotation({ annotation }) {
      const node = document.createElement("div");
      node.dataset.annotationId = annotation.id;
      node.style.cssText = `
        width: 100%;
        height: 100%;
        pointer-events: all;
      `;


      return {
        node,
        append: true
      };
    }
  }
});


instance.contentDocument.addEventListener("click", (event) => {
  if (event.target.dataset.annotationId != null) {
    const annotationId = event.target.dataset.annotationId;
    const annotation = instance.contentDocument.querySelector(
      `.PSPDFKit-Annotation[data-annotation-id="${annotationId}"]`
    );


    annotation.setAttribute("data-focusvisible-polyfill", true);
    annotation.focus();
  }
});

You can find out more information about custom renderers in the annotation customization guide.