feat: Add interfaces for focus management

core/blockly.ts

@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ import {
 } from './interfaces/i_draggable.js';
 import {IDragger} from './interfaces/i_dragger.js';
 import {IFlyout} from './interfaces/i_flyout.js';
+import {IFocusableNode} from './interfaces/i_focusable_node.js';
+import {IFocusableTree} from './interfaces/i_focusable_tree.js';
 import {IHasBubble, hasBubble} from './interfaces/i_has_bubble.js';
 import {IIcon, isIcon} from './interfaces/i_icon.js';
 import {IKeyboardAccessible} from './interfaces/i_keyboard_accessible.js';
@@ -544,6 +546,8 @@ export {
   IDragger,
   IFlyout,
   IFlyoutInflater,
+  IFocusableNode,
+  IFocusableTree,
   IHasBubble,
   IIcon,
   IKeyboardAccessible,

core/interfaces/i_focusable_node.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Google LLC
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import type {IFocusableTree} from './i_focusable_tree.js';
+
+/** Represents anything that can have input focus. */
+export interface IFocusableNode {
+  /**
+   * Returns the DOM element that can be explicitly requested to receive focus.
+   *
+   * IMPORTANT: Please note that this element is expected to have a visual
+   * presence on the page as it will both be explicitly focused and have its
+   * style changed depending on its current focus state (i.e. blurred, actively
+   * focused, and passively focused). The element will have one of two styles
+   * attached (where no style indicates blurred/not focused):
+   * - blocklyActiveFocus
+   * - blocklyPassiveFocus
+   *
+   * The returned element must also have a valid ID specified, and unique to the
+   * element relative to its nearest IFocusableTree parent.
+   *
+   * It's expected the return element will not change for the lifetime of the
+   * node.
+   */
+  getFocusableElement(): HTMLElement | SVGElement;
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the closest parent tree of this node (in cases where a tree has
+   * distinct trees underneath it), which represents the tree to which this node
+   * belongs.
+   */
+  getFocusableTree(): IFocusableTree;
+}

core/interfaces/i_focusable_tree.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Google LLC
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import type {IFocusableNode} from './i_focusable_node.js';
+
+/**
+ * Represents a tree of focusable elements with its own active/passive focus
+ * context.
+ *
+ * Note that focus is handled by FocusManager, and tree implementations can have
+ * at most one IFocusableNode focused at one time. If the tree itself has focus,
+ * then the tree's focused node is considered 'active' ('passive' if another
+ * tree has focus).
+ *
+ * Focus is shared between one or more trees, where each tree can have exactly
+ * one active or passive node (and only one active node can exist on the whole
+ * page at any given time). The idea of passive focus is to provide context to
+ * users on where their focus will be restored upon navigating back to a
+ * previously focused tree.
+ */
+export interface IFocusableTree {
+  /**
+   * Returns the current node with focus in this tree, or null if none (or if
+   * the root has focus).
+   *
+   * Note that this will never return a node from a nested sub-tree as that tree
+   * should specifically be called in order to retrieve its focused node.
+   */
+  getFocusedNode(): IFocusableNode | null;
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the top-level focusable node of the tree.
+   *
+   * It's expected that the returned node will be focused in cases where
+   * FocusManager wants to focus a tree in a situation where it does not
+   * currently have a focused node.
+   */
+  getRootFocusableNode(): IFocusableNode;
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the IFocusableNode corresponding to the select element, or null if
+   * the element does not have such a node.
+   *
+   * The provided element must have a non-null ID that conforms to the contract
+   * mentioned in IFocusableNode.
+   */
+  findFocusableNodeFor(
+    element: HTMLElement | SVGElement,
+  ): IFocusableNode | null;
+}