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Dragging a column resize handle installs mousemove and mouseup listeners on the document. When the button release never reaches the page — switching tabs, taking a screenshot, any focus steal — the mouseup never fires. The listeners stay attached and isResizingColumn keeps the dragged column, so the handle follows the pointer with no button held, as in the capture on #6652.

The touch path already covers its equivalent: the browser sends touchcancel instead of touchend when it takes the gesture over, and that handler cleans up. A mouse has no such event, but the next mousemove carries buttons === 0, which says the same thing — no button is down, so the gesture is over. The move handler now runs the same cleanup and end-commit there.

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Testing: npx vitest run in packages/table-core — 64 files, 1331 tests pass. The new case starts a resize, dispatches a move with buttons: 0, and asserts isResizingColumn is cleared and that a later move does not resume the drag; it fails on the previous code with the column still held. The existing drag tests now pass buttons: 1 on their moves, which is what a real drag reports — without it they describe a move with no button down, which is the case this PR adds.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Column resizing now ends when the mouse button that started the resize is no longer held, including when another button remains pressed. The final column size reflects the last position recorded while the initiating button was held, so later pointer movement won’t change it. Resizing also continues to track movement correctly when started with the middle or right mouse button.

Fixes #6652

Dragging a resize handle installs `mousemove` and `mouseup` listeners on the
document. If the button release never reaches the page — switching tabs,
taking a screenshot, any focus steal — the `mouseup` listener never fires: the
listeners stay attached and `isResizingColumn` keeps the dragged column, so the
handle follows the pointer with no button held.

The touch path already handles its equivalent, where the browser sends
`touchcancel` instead of `touchend`. A mouse has no such event, but the next
`mousemove` reports `buttons === 0`, which is the same information: no button
is down, so the gesture is over. Run the same cleanup and commit there.

The existing tests that simulate a drag now pass `buttons: 1` on their
`mousemove` events, which is what a real drag reports; without it they would
describe a move with no button held.
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Mouse resizing now ends when a mousemove event reports that the initiating button is no longer held. The handler removes the mouse listeners and preserves the size from the last move while that button was held.

Changes: Resize cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track the initiating button
packages/table-core/src/features/column-resizing/columnResizingFeature.utils.ts
The handler maps mouse button values to buttons masks and records the initiating mask. Touch resizing uses a zero mask.
End resizing when the button is released
packages/table-core/src/features/column-resizing/columnResizingFeature.utils.ts, packages/table-core/tests/unit/features/column-resizing/columnResizingFeature.utils.test.ts, .changeset/quiet-mice-resize.md
When a move reports that the initiating button is no longer held, the handler removes the mouse listeners and ends resizing without applying that move’s position. Tests cover release detection, final sizing, and middle- and right-button drags. The changeset records the patch.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: agammann

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 12d37

Column resizing now ends cleanly when a mouseup is missed, and middle- and right-button drags keep tracking while their button is held. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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Title check Passed The title names the fix (ending a column resize when the mouseup event was missed) and the package (table-core). The changeset, utils change, and tests all handle a mouse drag that continues after the…
Description check Passed The description covers the problem, the mechanism (a mousemove with buttons === 0 ends the gesture, matching the touchcancel path), and the testing performed. It includes the completed checklist and t…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #6652 is the only active direct target. Its requirement: column resizing must stop when the mouseup is missed (tab switch, screenshot, focus steal), so the handle no longer follows the pointer w…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The whole-PR diff (merge base 36733a3 to head 12d37cd) changes the column-resizing utils, its unit tests, and a patch changeset for @tanstack/table-core. The utils diff contains only resize-related c…
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The title names the fix (ending a column resize when the mouseup event was missed) and the package (table-core). The changeset, utils change, and tests all handle a mouse drag that continues after the button is released without a mouseup. The title matches the main change.

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The description covers the problem, the mechanism (a mousemove with buttons === 0 ends the gesture, matching the touchcancel path), and the testing performed. It includes the completed checklist and the release impact section with a changeset. It also links the fixed issue (#6652). The template's Changes section is filled in with motivation and the change itself. The description does not state the middle/right button mask mapping or the released-button tracking, which the objectives and changeset describe, but these are secondary details.

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Issue #6652 is the only active direct target. Its requirement: column resizing must stop when the mouseup is missed (tab switch, screenshot, focus steal), so the handle no longer follows the pointer with no button held. At head 12d37cd, header_getResizeHandler records a start button mask for mouse drags: BUTTON_MASK maps MouseEvent.button to the matching MouseEvent.buttons bit (0→1, 1→4, 2→2, 3→8, 4→16), and a missing button value falls back to primary. Touch starts use mask 0 and do not use the mouse moveHandler. The mouse moveHandler checks (e.buttons & startButtonMask) === 0. When the initiating button is released, it calls the new endAtLastHeldPosition(), which removes the document mousemove and mouseup listeners and calls onEnd(). The committed size uses the last position observed while the button was held, not the position of the detecting move. The PR description and the author's test report cover buttons 0 and middle/right-button cases. I did not run the test suite and did not read the test file at head. Limit: if the release is missed and the pointer does not move again, the listeners stay attached until the next mousemove. No column size changes in that case. The issue has no non-coding acceptance criteria.

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The whole-PR diff (merge base 36733a3 to head 12d37cd) changes the column-resizing utils, its unit tests, and a patch changeset for @tanstack/table-core. The utils diff contains only resize-related code: the BUTTON_MASK constant, the startButtonMask computation in header_getResizeHandler, the bitmask check in the mouse moveHandler, and endAtLastHeldPosition. These implement #6652. BUTTON_MASK covers the fourth and fifth buttons too. This extends the same mapping and does not add unrelated behavior. The touch path is unchanged. The changeset describes the same resize fix. Test changes, as described by the PR and the review summary, add regression cases and set buttons on move dispatches; they support the objective. The PR description is stale: it describes only the buttons === 0 check, while the code uses the bitmask check. This affects documentation accuracy, not scope.

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…position

When a resize loses its mouseup, the next mousemove reports buttons: 0 and
that is how the handler notices the gesture is over. It then committed the
position carried by that very move, but the pointer keeps travelling after
the button comes up, so the column was sized by how far it drifted rather
than by where the drag ended.

The end now uses the last position observed while the button was still down,
which is the position a real mouseup would have reported. Normal mouseup
keeps using the event's own position.

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The recovery path only ends the drag when buttons === 0. If the resize started with the primary button, its mouseup was missed, and the user is still holding a different button, the next move has a nonzero bitmask and keeps resizing even though the primary drag ended. Could this check the initiating button’s bit instead, with a regression where the next move has buttons: 2?

`buttons` is a bitmask, so a nonzero value does not mean the drag is
still alive. When the button that started a resize comes up while another
one stays down — the same focus steal that hides the `mouseup` — the next
move reports a nonzero mask and the handle keeps following the pointer.

Track the bit the gesture began with and end the resize when that bit is
clear.

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You're right — buttons === 0 only catches the case where nothing is held.

The missed mouseup and the "another button is down" case share the same cause: the release never reached the page, so the only evidence left is on the next move. That move reports whatever mask is current, and 2 after a left-button drag means the left button is gone, not that the drag continues. Checking for 0 only treats the empty mask as a release, so a move that happens to carry another button keeps the handle attached.

Fixed in b1e9467: the handler records the button the gesture started with and ends the resize when that button's bit is clear.

const startButtonMask = isTouchStartEvent(event)
  ? 0
  : 1 << (event as MouseEvent).button
if ((e.buttons & startButtonMask) === 0) {
  mouseEvents.endAtLastHeldPosition()
  return
}

should end the resize when the released button is not the one that started it covers your regression: the drag starts with a left mousedown, ends at clientX 150, and the next move arrives at 400 with buttons: 2. The test asserts the resize is no longer active and the committed width still matches the 150 position. Reverting the condition to e.buttons === 0 makes it fail with expected 'firstName' to be false.

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`button` and `buttons` order the non-primary buttons differently: the
middle button is `button: 1` but `buttons: 4`, and the right one is
`button: 2` with `buttons: 2`. Shifting the button value gave the wrong
mask for both, so a middle-button drag ended on its first move and a
right-button drag ended while the button was still held.

Look the bit up instead, and treat a `mousedown` without a button value as
the primary one.

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Good catch — the two properties really do order the non-primary buttons differently.

button button buttons
primary 0 1
middle 1 4
secondary 2 2

So 1 << button gave the middle button mask 2 (which is the secondary one) and the secondary button mask 4 (the middle one). A middle-button drag therefore saw its own bit clear on the first move and ended immediately; a right-button drag ended while the button was still held.

Fixed in 12d37cd with the mapping written out, rather than shifted:

const BUTTON_MASK: Readonly<Record<number, number>> = {
  0: 1, // primary
  1: 4, // auxiliary (middle)
  2: 2, // secondary (right)
  3: 8, // fourth (back)
  4: 16, // fifth (forward)
}
const startButtonMask = isTouchStartEvent(event)
  ? 0
  : (BUTTON_MASK[(event as MouseEvent).button] ?? BUTTON_MASK[0]!)

Regression cases cover both initiating buttons (should keep resizing while a middle-button drag holds its own button, … right-button …): the drag starts on that button, a move arrives holding only it, and the test asserts both that isResizingColumn is still the column and that deltaOffset still tracks the pointer — so a drag that is merely still flagged, without following the mouse, fails too. The move after the button comes up ends the resize.

Reverting the lookup to 1 << button makes both cases fail with expected false to be 'firstName'.

One detail worth flagging: the handler is also called from plain objects in the existing tests ({ type: 'mousedown', clientX: 100 }), where button is undefined. That falls back to the primary bit, which is what a buttonless mousedown means.

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