How to focus a particular element i just rendered?

[Mark Skipper]

Im rewriting some JS in Elm. 

When the user clicks on an element the JS replaces the element with an <input> with the same contents, and calls .focus() 

In Elm I'm keeping the editing state in a boolean and view draws the component as <input> when were editing, and the display element when we're not.

But I don't know how to focus the <input> element when I render it. Autofocus doesn't do it.

Am i going about this the right way?

Is there a way to call .focus() from existing elm libraries or do I need to write custom JS interop?

Thanks

Mark

[Mark Skipper]

I guess I should be looking here https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/elm-discuss/focu/elm-discuss/b90rqhnfjXw/-eJtlXIJAQAJ