# Post navigator keeps keyboard focus when entering post number

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-navigator-keeps-keyboard-focus-when-entering-post-number/35354>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** keyboard\
**Created:** [8 Noviembre, 2015 13:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-navigator-keeps-keyboard-focus-when-entering-post-number/35354 "2015-11-08T13:29:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![JBert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@JBert](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JBert)\
**Post date:** [8 Noviembre, 2015 13:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-navigator-keeps-keyboard-focus-when-entering-post-number/35354/1 "2015-11-08T13:29:17Z")

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I frequently use my keyboard’s cursor keys when going through longer topics as I’m prone to wrist pain when using the scroll wheel for long periods.

What I noticed is that the cursor keys stop working when doing the following:

- Go into any sufficiently long topic, e.g. [the missing plugins thread](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-plugin-for-discourse-that-does-not-yet-exist/31).
- Click the post navigator to open it fully.
- Select the post number, replace it with e.g. 200.
- Press Enter. ( **this is the important step** , clicking “go” appears to work)
- The post navigator closes and you are taken to the requested post.
- Press Up / Down on the keyboard. This won’t do anything.

Notice that on mobile (Android in my case) the focus also stays if I press Return from the on-screen keyboard (the “go” button is rather hard to hit accurately). While not blocking I still see the Copy / Cut / Paste controls overlay there until I open the post navigator again or dismiss the overlay.

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