I have a list of tiddlers that the user can customize using several controls. One of the controls is a search box ( $edit-text widget), where the user can enter some text that they want to filter the tiddlers with. It works, but for some reason when one types in the search box the focus disappears,…

[image] Loss of focus issue: The Hacky Workaround(tm) My comment was don’t wrap edit-text widget with set or let, otherwise it will keeps refreshing and auto select all text, cause old chars get deleted. Not sure why, but I also walkaround it. This will solve the issue

[image] arunnbabu81: This will solve the issue I had exactly the same, and yes, the surrounding <set> (or <let>) was the issue for me, too… I ended up working my way around that problem, haven’t found any other solution.

Thank you, I tried removing all the set/let/vars, but so far it doesn’t work… not sure what to do, any suggestion?

The first thing to do is to find the tiddler that actually renders the “upcoming” interface. Starting from Demo… Demo transcludes $:/plugins/nico/projectify/ui/dashboard/Dashboard (a shadow tiddler from the Projectify plugin) $:/plugins/nico/projectify/ui/dashboard/Dashboard displays a tabset t…

Thank you Eric for the explanation, however it was not enough to solve the problem: the focus issue is still here if I only move this <$let> after the transclusion of the tiddler containing the <$edit-text>. After a lot of trial and error, I discovered that I also need to remove the line <$tiddler …

If you need to edit somethin, you could make an edit-button and copy your existing text into a temp-tiddler and edit it there. When you are finished, you may have an OK button, that copies the edited text back. That’s more complex, but you should not have a problem with the focus.

In the end, I was able to modify the code so that it does the same thing but without the $tiddler widget which was contributing to the issue (and also with the $let after the transclusion containing the $edit-text, as Eric said). Thank you all! your explanations helped me a lot to understand how to…

Issue with focus disappearing

arunnbabu81 November 18, 2025, 3:25pm 2

This will solve the issue