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+// Copyright (c) 2020 Tildes contributors <code@tildes.net>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+
+// Note: unlike almost all other JS behaviors, this one does not attach to elements
+// based on the presence of a data-js-* HTML attribute. This attaches to any element
+// with the dropdown-toggle class so that this behavior is always applied to dropdowns.
+$.onmount(".dropdown-toggle", function() {
+    $(this).click(function() {
+        if ($(this).is(":focus")) {
+            // If the button was already focused (so the menu is visible), close it
+            $(this).blur();
+        } else {
+            // Spectre.css's dropdown menus use the focus event to display the menu,
+            // but Safari and Firefox on OSX don't give focus to a <button> when it's
+            // clicked. More info:
+            // https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/button#Clicking_and_focus
+            // This should make the behavior consistent across all browsers
+            $(this).focus();
+        }
+    });
+});