Fix Safari category dropdown closing on interaction due to event propagation

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Safari users could not create or select categories—the dropdown closed immediately on any interaction. The issue also affected the emoji picker.

Root Cause

Click events from interactive elements inside the dropdown bubbled to the document-level "click outside" handler, closing the dropdown prematurely. Safari's stricter event handling made this more apparent than in Chrome/Firefox.

Changes

Event Propagation

• Added event.stopPropagation() to all interactive handlers (toggleDropdown, toggleEmojiPicker, custom_category, handleEmojiSelect)
• Applied on:click|stopPropagation to dropdown containers, input fields, category buttons, and emoji picker

HTML Semantics

• Changed dropdown trigger from <div role="button"> to <button type="button"> for proper Safari compatibility
• Added ARIA attributes (aria-expanded, aria-haspopup) for accessibility

Keyboard Handling

• Added handleInputKeydown() to prevent Enter key from triggering form submissions or closing the dropdown

Type Safety

• Updated event handler signatures from generic Event to specific MouseEvent/KeyboardEvent types

// Before
function toggleDropdown() {
    isOpen = !isOpen;
}

// After
function toggleDropdown(event: MouseEvent) {
    event.stopPropagation();
    isOpen = !isOpen;
}

File modified: frontend/src/lib/components/CategoryDropdown.svelte

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Original prompt

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<issue_title>[BUG] Cannot create or use categories when using Safari (new location window)</issue_title>
<issue_description>Describe the bug
Cannot create a new category, or use any of the existing categories, when using the Safari Browser.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior (USING SAFARI):

1. Create new location
2. Go to the second tab
3. Try to create a category, or use one that is already created.
4. Nothing happen, the category pop-up juste closes, category not selected nor created.

Expected behavior
Creating and using categories

Additional context
Version 18.6 (20621.3.11.11.3), tested with two different computers. Also, the emoji pop-up is not working. I think this pop-up is broken under safari.

Everything is working great with Firefox. </issue_description>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

• Fixes [BUG] Cannot create or use categories when using Safari (new location window) #799

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