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Q&A Move keyboard focus into the search term box when search is clicked

GitHub issue: Automatically focus search bar after clicking search (search-slide) When I click the dark grey search button at the top of a Codidact page a new panel opens containing a search ter...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

Question feature-request search
#4: Post edited by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2023-06-22T11:10:08Z (over 1 year ago)
Make image a link to the standalone image
  • GitHub issue: [Automatically focus search bar after clicking search (search-slide)](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/829)
  • ---
  • When I click the dark grey search button at the top of a Codidact page a new panel opens containing a search term box and a blue search button. If I start typing, nothing happens because the search term box does not have keyboard focus. I need to click in the search term box before I can type anything.
  • ![New search panel opened after clicking the search button]
  • Is this by design, or could it be changed so that keyboard focus automatically switches to the search term box?
  • I can't think of a benefit to not changing the keyboard focus, especially as the previous keyboard focus is already lost (my typing doesn't go to the place I was previously typing, such as a draft question).
  • Currently I have to make 2 clicks to type a search term, this would reduce it to 1 click. That's a very small difference and doesn't save much time, so I'd expect most of the benefit of this change to be in not confusing new users.
  • [New search panel opened after clicking the search button]: https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/gl22tann626tcy50n0mq340osonb
  • GitHub issue: [Automatically focus search bar after clicking search (search-slide)](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/829)
  • ---
  • When I click the dark grey search button at the top of a Codidact page a new panel opens containing a search term box and a blue search button. If I start typing, nothing happens because the search term box does not have keyboard focus. I need to click in the search term box before I can type anything.
  • [![New search panel opened after clicking the search button]][New search panel opened after clicking the search button]
  • Is this by design, or could it be changed so that keyboard focus automatically switches to the search term box?
  • I can't think of a benefit to not changing the keyboard focus, especially as the previous keyboard focus is already lost (my typing doesn't go to the place I was previously typing, such as a draft question).
  • Currently I have to make 2 clicks to type a search term, this would reduce it to 1 click. That's a very small difference and doesn't save much time, so I'd expect most of the benefit of this change to be in not confusing new users.
  • [New search panel opened after clicking the search button]: https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/gl22tann626tcy50n0mq340osonb
#3: Post edited by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2023-01-15T10:18:57Z (almost 2 years ago)
Link to older GitHub issue that already covers this
  • When I click the dark grey search button at the top of a Codidact page a new panel opens containing a search term box and a blue search button. If I start typing, nothing happens because the search term box does not have keyboard focus. I need to click in the search term box before I can type anything.
  • ![New search panel opened after clicking the search button]
  • Is this by design, or could it be changed so that keyboard focus automatically switches to the search term box?
  • I can't think of a benefit to not changing the keyboard focus, especially as the previous keyboard focus is already lost (my typing doesn't go to the place I was previously typing, such as a draft question).
  • Currently I have to make 2 clicks to type a search term, this would reduce it to 1 click. That's a very small difference and doesn't save much time, so I'd expect most of the benefit of this change to be in not confusing new users.
  • [New search panel opened after clicking the search button]: https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/gl22tann626tcy50n0mq340osonb
  • GitHub issue: [Automatically focus search bar after clicking search (search-slide)](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/829)
  • ---
  • When I click the dark grey search button at the top of a Codidact page a new panel opens containing a search term box and a blue search button. If I start typing, nothing happens because the search term box does not have keyboard focus. I need to click in the search term box before I can type anything.
  • ![New search panel opened after clicking the search button]
  • Is this by design, or could it be changed so that keyboard focus automatically switches to the search term box?
  • I can't think of a benefit to not changing the keyboard focus, especially as the previous keyboard focus is already lost (my typing doesn't go to the place I was previously typing, such as a draft question).
  • Currently I have to make 2 clicks to type a search term, this would reduce it to 1 click. That's a very small difference and doesn't save much time, so I'd expect most of the benefit of this change to be in not confusing new users.
  • [New search panel opened after clicking the search button]: https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/gl22tann626tcy50n0mq340osonb
#2: Post edited by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2023-01-09T05:40:48Z (almost 2 years ago)
Replace outdated image with current look
  • When I click the dark grey search button at the top of a Codidact page a new panel opens containing a search term box and a blue search button. If I start typing, nothing happens because the search term box does not have keyboard focus. I need to click in the search term box before I can type anything.
  • ![New search panel opened after clicking the search button]
  • Is this by design, or could it be changed so that keyboard focus automatically switches to the search term box?
  • I can't think of a benefit to not changing the keyboard focus, especially as the previous keyboard focus is already lost (my typing doesn't go to the place I was previously typing, such as a draft question).
  • Currently I have to make 2 clicks to type a search term, this would reduce it to 1 click. That's a very small difference and doesn't save much time, so I'd expect most of the benefit of this change to be in not confusing new users.
  • [New search panel opened after clicking the search button]: https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/ZAFRdGQv9a1gKM4nujdsL4Ki
  • When I click the dark grey search button at the top of a Codidact page a new panel opens containing a search term box and a blue search button. If I start typing, nothing happens because the search term box does not have keyboard focus. I need to click in the search term box before I can type anything.
  • ![New search panel opened after clicking the search button]
  • Is this by design, or could it be changed so that keyboard focus automatically switches to the search term box?
  • I can't think of a benefit to not changing the keyboard focus, especially as the previous keyboard focus is already lost (my typing doesn't go to the place I was previously typing, such as a draft question).
  • Currently I have to make 2 clicks to type a search term, this would reduce it to 1 click. That's a very small difference and doesn't save much time, so I'd expect most of the benefit of this change to be in not confusing new users.
  • [New search panel opened after clicking the search button]: https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/gl22tann626tcy50n0mq340osonb
#1: Initial revision by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2022-09-18T21:48:54Z (about 2 years ago) 
Move keyboard focus into the search term box when search is clicked
When I click the dark grey search button at the top of a Codidact page a new panel opens containing a search term box and a blue search button. If I start typing, nothing happens because the search term box does not have keyboard focus. I need to click in the search term box before I can type anything.

![New search panel opened after clicking the search button]

Is this by design, or could it be changed so that keyboard focus automatically switches to the search term box?

I can't think of a benefit to not changing the keyboard focus, especially as the previous keyboard focus is already lost (my typing doesn't go to the place I was previously typing, such as a draft question).

Currently I have to make 2 clicks to type a search term, this would reduce it to 1 click. That's a very small difference and doesn't save much time, so I'd expect most of the benefit of this change to be in not confusing new users.


[New search panel opened after clicking the search button]: https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/ZAFRdGQv9a1gKM4nujdsL4Ki
feature-request search