focus=yes in edit widget causes input to be selected

[Xavier Cazin]

Hello everyone,

I stumble on an issue that I can seem to solve by myself: in the code below, I need to set focus=yes to counter the lost of focus caused by the <$set> content refresh :

<$set name=foo value=<<now format:"[UTC]YYYY-0MM-0DD@0hh:0mm:0ss">> >

Refresh of the `foo` value: ''<<foo>>'' causes either //focus// or //user input// (when `focus=yes`) to be lost.

<$edit-text tiddler="$:/state/foo" focus=yes tag=input placeholder="Try typing something" default=""/>
</$set>

But then the input text gets selected as it is typed, causing the next character to replace the previous one. Tested on 5.1.21 and 5.1.22-prerelease, on Firefox and Chrome. How would you solve this?

Thanks in advance for your help!

-- Xavier Cazin

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Xavier

I think this is the venerable problem of the focus/selection not being retained over a refresh cycle. The only way to avoid it at present is to ensure that the edit-text widget doesn’t get refreshed.

Best wishes

Jeremy.

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[Xavier Cazin]

Hi Jeremy,

Thank you for your answer: it lead me to switch to a more idiomatic code for the UI, which wouldn't trigger the edit-text refresh!

Cheers,

-- Xavier Cazin

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