diff --git a/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditCommits.test.tsx b/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditCommits.test.tsx
index 8761f2903f..6e118c35c8 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditCommits.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditCommits.test.tsx
@@ -228,7 +228,9 @@ function renderDomEditCommits(
       applyDomSelection: vi.fn(),
       clearDomSelection: vi.fn(),
       refreshDomEditSelectionFromPreview: vi.fn(),
-      buildDomSelectionFromTarget: vi.fn(async () => null),
+      buildDomSelectionFromTarget: vi.fn(async (target: HTMLElement) =>
+        target === selection.element ? selection : null,
+      ),
       onTrySdkPersist: options.onTrySdkPersist,
       readOnlyPreview: false,
     });
@@ -893,7 +895,7 @@ describe("useDomEditCommits rich-text persist handling", () => {
     }
   });
 
-  it("does not retarget a commit onto a replacement preview node", async () => {
+  it("does not retarget a commit onto a replacement preview node, and says the text was not saved", async () => {
     const fetchMock = stubPatchFetch({ ok: true, changed: true, matched: true });
     const html = '<span style="color: blue">After</span>';
     const { iframe, element } = createPreviewElement(`<div data-hf-id="hf-card">${html}</div>`);
@@ -902,6 +904,7 @@ describe("useDomEditCommits rich-text persist handling", () => {
     replacement.dataset.hfId = "hf-card";
     replacement.innerHTML = "Reloaded elsewhere";
     element.replaceWith(replacement);
+    const errorSpy = vi.spyOn(console, "error").mockImplementation(() => {});
 
     try {
       await act(async () => {
@@ -914,8 +917,14 @@ describe("useDomEditCommits rich-text persist handling", () => {
 
       expect(replacement.innerHTML).toBe("Reloaded elsewhere");
       expect(fetchMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-      expect(rendered.showToast).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      expect(rendered.showToast).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+        expect.stringMatching(
+          /Couldn't save the text edit: the text's element is gone from the preview/,
+        ),
+        "error",
+      );
     } finally {
+      errorSpy.mockRestore();
       rendered.cleanup();
     }
   });
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditCommits.ts b/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditCommits.ts
index eacf065279..fa36a4f12a 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditCommits.ts
+++ b/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditCommits.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { StudioSaveHttpError, trackStudioSaveFailure } from "../utils/studioSave
 import type { DomEditSelection } from "../components/editor/domEditing";
 import { fontFamilyFromAssetPath, type ImportedFontAsset } from "../components/editor/fontAssets";
 import type { CommitDomEditPatchBatches } from "./domEditCommitTypes";
+import type { ResolveDomSelectionOptions } from "./useDomSelectionTypes";
 import type { PatchOperation } from "../utils/sourcePatcher";
 import { DomEditPersistUnsafeValueError } from "./domEditPersistFailure";
 import { useDomEditPersist, type RecordEditInput } from "./useDomEditPersist";
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ export interface UseDomEditCommitsParams {
   refreshDomEditSelectionFromPreview: (selection: DomEditSelection) => void;
   buildDomSelectionFromTarget: (
     target: HTMLElement,
-    options?: { preferClipAncestor?: boolean },
+    options?: ResolveDomSelectionOptions,
   ) => Promise<DomEditSelection | null>;
   /** Resync the in-memory SDK session after a SERVER-side write (NOT the SDK
    * path, whose session is already current) so a later SDK edit doesn't
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditTextCommits.test.tsx b/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditTextCommits.test.tsx
index 4adaec4c68..3057120c54 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditTextCommits.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditTextCommits.test.tsx
@@ -125,13 +125,20 @@ afterEach(() => {
 });
 
 describe("useDomEditTextCommits", () => {
-  function richTextProbe() {
-    const { iframe, element } = previewElement('<h1 id="t">Old</h1>', "t");
+  function richTextProbe(
+    html = '<h1 id="t">Old</h1>',
+    overrides: (doc: Document) => Partial<UseDomEditTextCommitsParams> = () => ({}),
+  ) {
+    const { iframe, element } = previewElement(html, "t");
     const persist = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+    const showToast = vi.fn();
     const base = commitParams({
       previewIframeRef: { current: iframe },
       domEditSelection: selectionFor(element),
+      buildDomSelectionFromTarget: vi.fn(async (target: HTMLElement) => selectionFor(target)),
       persistDomEditOperations: persist,
+      showToast,
+      ...overrides(element.ownerDocument),
     });
     const captured: { hook: ReturnType<typeof useDomEditTextCommits> | null } = { hook: null };
     function Probe({ readOnlyPreview }: { readOnlyPreview: boolean }) {
@@ -143,13 +150,25 @@ describe("useDomEditTextCommits", () => {
     const save = captured.hook!.handleDomRichTextCommit;
     const commit = { element, html: "New", previousHtml: "Old" };
     element.innerHTML = "New";
-    return { root, Probe, persist, element, save: () => act(async () => save(commit)) };
+    return {
+      root,
+      Probe,
+      persist,
+      showToast,
+      element,
+      save: () => act(async () => save(commit)),
+    };
   }
 
-  it("saves in-place text while the preview is editable", async () => {
-    const { persist, save } = richTextProbe();
+  it("saves in-place text while the preview is editable, and refreshes the selection it edited", async () => {
+    const applyDomSelection = vi.fn();
+    const { persist, element, save } = richTextProbe(undefined, () => ({ applyDomSelection }));
     await save();
     expect(persist).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(applyDomSelection).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      expect.objectContaining({ element }),
+      expect.objectContaining({ preserveGroup: true }),
+    );
   });
 
   it("refuses in-place text once the preview turns read-only, through an earlier handler, and puts the old text back", async () => {
@@ -160,6 +179,44 @@ describe("useDomEditTextCommits", () => {
     expect(element.innerHTML).toBe("Old");
   });
 
+  it("saves the edited element, and leaves the selection alone, when the selection is another element or none", async () => {
+    for (const selected of ["card", null]) {
+      const applyDomSelection = vi.fn();
+      const { persist, element, save } = richTextProbe(
+        '<div id="card"><p id="t">Old</p></div>',
+        (doc) => ({
+          domEditSelection: selected ? selectionFor(doc.getElementById(selected)!) : null,
+          applyDomSelection,
+          buildDomSelectionFromTarget: vi.fn(async (target: HTMLElement) => ({
+            ...selectionFor(target),
+            label: "Resolved from the edited element",
+          })),
+        }),
+      );
+      await save();
+      expect(persist).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+      expect(persist.mock.calls[0]![0]).toMatchObject({
+        element,
+        label: "Resolved from the edited element",
+      });
+      expect(applyDomSelection).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      cleanup?.();
+      cleanup = null;
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("says so and puts the old text back when the edited text cannot be saved", async () => {
+    const error = vi.spyOn(console, "error").mockImplementation(() => {});
+    const { persist, showToast, element, save } = richTextProbe(undefined, () => ({
+      buildDomSelectionFromTarget: vi.fn(async () => null),
+    }));
+    await save();
+    expect(persist).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(showToast).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("Couldn't save"), "error");
+    expect(error).toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(element.innerHTML).toBe("Old");
+  });
+
   it("keeps concurrent text commit ownership isolated by target", async () => {
     const { iframe, element: firstElement } = previewElement(
       "<div id='first'>First</div><div id='second'>Second</div>",
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditTextCommits.ts b/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditTextCommits.ts
index 83c3af5c90..4ec9055cd3 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditTextCommits.ts
+++ b/packages/studio/src/hooks/useDomEditTextCommits.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import {
 import { commitDomStyles } from "./domStyleCommit";
 import { useDomEditAttributeCommits } from "./useDomEditAttributeCommits";
 import type { InlineTextEditCommit } from "./useInlineTextEdit";
+import type { ResolveDomSelectionOptions } from "./useDomSelectionTypes";
 
 // ── Types ──
 
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ export interface UseDomEditTextCommitsParams {
   refreshDomEditSelectionFromPreview: (selection: DomEditSelection) => void;
   buildDomSelectionFromTarget: (
     target: HTMLElement,
-    options?: { preferClipAncestor?: boolean },
+    options?: ResolveDomSelectionOptions,
   ) => Promise<DomEditSelection | null>;
   persistDomEditOperations: PersistDomEditOperations;
   resolveImportedFontAsset: (fontFamilyValue: string) => ImportedFontAsset | null;
@@ -56,15 +57,6 @@ function canCommitInlineTextSelection(selection: DomEditSelection, element: HTML
   return canEditElementTextInline(element);
 }
 
-function ownsCurrentPreviewElement(
-  selection: DomEditSelection,
-  element: HTMLElement,
-  document: Document | null | undefined,
-): document is Document {
-  if (!document || !element.isConnected) return false;
-  return element === selection.element && element.ownerDocument === document;
-}
-
 async function resyncDomTextSelectionFromPreview(
   doc: Document | null | undefined,
   selection: DomEditSelection,
@@ -96,6 +88,8 @@ export function useDomEditTextCommits({
 }: UseDomEditTextCommitsParams) {
   const latestReadOnlyPreviewRef = useRef(readOnlyPreview);
   latestReadOnlyPreviewRef.current = readOnlyPreview;
+  const latestSelectionRef = useRef(domEditSelection);
+  latestSelectionRef.current = domEditSelection;
   const domTextCommitVersionRef = useRef(new Map<string, symbol>());
   const domStyleCommitVersionRef = useRef(new Map<string, symbol>());
 
@@ -238,29 +232,36 @@ export function useDomEditTextCommits({
    */
   const handleDomRichTextCommit = useCallback(
     async ({ element, html, previousHtml }: InlineTextEditCommit) => {
-      if (!domEditSelection) return;
-      if (latestReadOnlyPreviewRef.current) {
+      const putBack = () => {
         if (element.isConnected && element.innerHTML === html) element.innerHTML = previousHtml;
-        return;
+      };
+      if (latestReadOnlyPreviewRef.current) return putBack();
+      const refuse = (reason: string) => {
+        console.error("[Studio] text edit not saved:", reason, element);
+        showToast(`Couldn't save the text edit: ${reason}`, "error");
+        putBack();
+      };
+      // The edited node, not the current selection: a press can open an edit on a child of what
+      // is selected, and a host can clear the selection before the edit closes.
+      const doc = previewIframeRef.current?.contentDocument;
+      if (!doc || !element.isConnected || element.ownerDocument !== doc) {
+        return refuse("the text's element is gone from the preview");
+      }
+      const selection = await buildDomSelectionFromTarget(element, {
+        exactTarget: true,
+        skipSourceProbe: true,
+      });
+      if (selection?.element !== element) {
+        return refuse("this text was not found in the composition's source");
+      }
+      // The same gate that let the edit open, not the design panel's field rule: an element
+      // whose text holds a line break has no fields, and editing in place rewrites its markup.
+      if (!canCommitInlineTextSelection(selection, element)) {
+        return refuse("this text can't be edited in place");
       }
-      // The same gate that let the edit open, not the design panel's.
-      //
-      // The panel's rule is about its text fields, and it has none for an
-      // element whose text contains a line break: a `<span>` holding `<br>`s
-      // is not a leaf, so nothing inside is a field and the element reports no
-      // editable text at all. Editing in place does not use fields — it
-      // rewrites the element's own markup — so refusing on that rule refused
-      // elements the caret had just been opened in, and every colour the user
-      // chose was dropped on the way out with nothing said about it.
-      if (!canCommitInlineTextSelection(domEditSelection, element)) return;
-      const iframe = previewIframeRef.current;
-      const doc = iframe?.contentDocument;
-      // A preview reload replaces the document. Never resolve this commit onto
-      // the replacement node: it did not own the edit or its rollback snapshot.
-      if (!ownsCurrentPreviewElement(domEditSelection, element, doc)) return;
       const isLatestTextCommit = bumpDomEditCommitMapVersion(
         domTextCommitVersionRef.current,
-        getDomEditTargetKey(domEditSelection),
+        getDomEditTargetKey(selection),
       );
       const operations = [buildDomEditRichTextPatchOperation(html)];
       let appliedHtml = "";
@@ -274,7 +275,7 @@ export function useDomEditTextCommits({
           appliedHtml = element.innerHTML;
         },
         persist: async () => {
-          await persistDomEditOperations(domEditSelection, operations, {
+          await persistDomEditOperations(selection, operations, {
             label: "Edit text",
             skipRefresh: true,
             shouldSave: isLatestTextCommit,
@@ -288,13 +289,13 @@ export function useDomEditTextCommits({
             element.innerHTML = previousHtml;
           }
         },
-        onError: (error) =>
-          reportDomEditPersistFailure(domEditSelection, operations, error, showToast),
-        shouldResync: isLatestTextCommit,
+        onError: (error) => reportDomEditPersistFailure(selection, operations, error, showToast),
+        // Re-select only what is still selected: the selection may have moved on, or a host cleared it.
+        shouldResync: () => isLatestTextCommit() && latestSelectionRef.current?.element === element,
         resync: () =>
           resyncDomTextSelectionFromPreview(
             doc,
-            domEditSelection,
+            selection,
             activeCompPath,
             buildDomSelectionFromTarget,
             applyDomSelection,
@@ -306,7 +307,6 @@ export function useDomEditTextCommits({
       activeCompPath,
       applyDomSelection,
       buildDomSelectionFromTarget,
-      domEditSelection,
       persistDomEditOperations,
       previewIframeRef,
       showToast,