diff --git a/src/react/edit/input.ts b/src/react/edit/input.ts
index d3e1745..9e20ff3 100644
--- a/src/react/edit/input.ts
+++ b/src/react/edit/input.ts
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ export class RichInput {
     r.removeEventListener('keydown', this.onKeyDown)
     document.removeEventListener('selectionchange', this.onSelChange)
     cancelAnimationFrame(this.raf)
+    this.raf = 0 // or the next selection change waits forever for a frame that was cancelled
     this.root = null
     this.override = null
   }
diff --git a/test/input-reattach.test.ts b/test/input-reattach.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b52df06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/input-reattach.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, expect, test } from 'bun:test'
+import { RichInput } from '../src/react/edit/input'
+
+// RichInput follows the selection through one animation frame at a time. Detaching cancels a pending frame; if the handle is not
+// cleared too, every later selection change is ignored: the editor stops knowing where the caret is, the page holding the caret is
+// no longer kept mounted while scrolling, and typing after a scroll lands at the top of the document.
+
+type Fn = () => void
+const g = globalThis as Record<string, unknown>
+const saved: Record<string, unknown> = {}
+let frames: Fn[] = []
+let selChange: Fn | null = null
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  for (const k of ['document', 'requestAnimationFrame', 'cancelAnimationFrame']) saved[k] = g[k]
+  frames = []
+  selChange = null
+  g.document = {
+    addEventListener: (type: string, fn: Fn) => type === 'selectionchange' && (selChange = fn),
+    removeEventListener: (type: string, fn: Fn) => type === 'selectionchange' && selChange === fn && (selChange = null),
+  }
+  g.requestAnimationFrame = (fn: Fn) => frames.push(fn)
+  g.cancelAnimationFrame = (id: number) => void (frames[id - 1] = () => {})
+})
+afterEach(() => {
+  for (const k of Object.keys(saved)) g[k] = saved[k]
+})
+
+// a root with no selection in it: reading the selection gives null, which the host is still told about
+const root = () => ({ addEventListener() {}, removeEventListener() {}, contains: () => false, getRootNode: () => ({}), ownerDocument: { getSelection: () => null } }) as unknown as HTMLElement
+
+test('a selection change after a re-attach is still followed (a cancelled frame does not block the next one)', () => {
+  const seen: unknown[] = []
+  const input = new RichInput({ onSelection: (s: unknown) => seen.push(s) } as never)
+  input.attach(root())
+  selChange!() // a frame is now pending
+  expect(frames.length).toBe(1)
+  input.attach(root()) // another root: detach (the pending frame is cancelled), then attach
+  selChange!()
+  expect(frames.length).toBe(2) // the new change asked for its own frame
+  frames[1]()
+  expect(seen.length).toBe(1) // and the host heard about it
+})