The discussion revolves around an issue where the search field in the GIF search widget within chat is not automatically activated when entering the interface, requiring a manual click to type. Matthias_Schuster highlights the inconvenience, especially for accessibility. Moin confirms the same behavior, and j.jaffeux notes it works across browsers but acknowledges the issue. A fix was merged in a pull request (#30613), which resolved the problem for Moin. j.jaffeux clarifies that a subsequent PR (#30638) will remove the need for special cases, ensuring the functionality works seamlessly. Moin confirms the fix is effective, and j.jaffeux appreciates the confirmation.
When I enter the “Search GIF” widget in the chat, the field to input the search string is not activated. I need to click into the box, in order to be able to type.
It would be nice, if I could just type away (and also make it more accessible to disabled people, who work without a mouse)
I noticed the same behavior in chat yesterday.
It’s working for me chrome/safari/firefox/arc. Can you give me more details on your env?
I will still push a change, which could potentially improve things for you.
It works now.
I think it was fixed here FIX: Ensure popups from the chat composer dropdown gain focus by pento · Pull Request #30613 · discourse/discourse · GitHub
Ah yes that could be it 
Ok I know why it was not obvious to me, because I had fixed this problem in another way in my emoji picker branch that I just merged. This PR will also remove the fix you linked: DEV: removes non needed special case by jjaffeux · Pull Request #30638 · discourse/discourse · GitHub
It should all work without any special case now. Thanks 
I can confirm that it does.
Thanks for checking 
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