diff --git a/packages/playwright-core/src/server/injected/recorder.ts b/packages/playwright-core/src/server/injected/recorder.ts
index 428deaf7ea..b6382b3839 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-core/src/server/injected/recorder.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-core/src/server/injected/recorder.ts
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ class Recorder {
     const activeElement = this._deepActiveElement(document);
     // Firefox dispatches "focus" event to body when clicking on a backgrounded headed browser window.
     // We'd like to ignore this stray event.
-    if (activeElement === document.body)
+    if (userGesture && activeElement === document.body)
       return;
     const result = activeElement ? generateSelector(this._injectedScript, activeElement, this._testIdAttributeName) : null;
     this._activeModel = result && result.selector ? result : null;