What I was asking is more about loosing the "edit mode" when you click elsewhere, focus could still be on the same element if the new item you clicked is not focusable, but keeping the QWidget in edit mode is confusing. When you press tab you would go to the next focusable element. I guess we can make a difference from "the Widget is focused" and "the widget is currently being edited", I think 2 different mode should have 2 different looks not confuse users. This is the way it's used on web page nowadays. Thanks for the explanation!