The welcome banner search input loses focus after selecting a result

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When you enter a search in the welcome banner, the input field loses focus after selecting a suggested result. This problem also occurs when using the clear button.

Instead, it throws the following error in the console:

The image shows an error message stack trace indicating a "TypeError: Cannot read properties of null" due to a scenario where a focus search input fails to provide a value. (Captioned by AI)
The image shows an error message stack trace indicating a "TypeError: Cannot read properties of null" due to a scenario where a focus search input fails to provide a value. (Captioned by AI)592×176 6.66 KB

(I will PR tomorrow)

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I don’t know if this is related, but there seem to be some inconsistencies when more than one search menu is available. For example using the keyboard shortcut / for search opens and focuses the header search, even when the search banner is rendered. This also happens when the search icon would actually be hidden in the header.

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Have you rebuilt recently? I can see a related PR that should fix this behavior: UX: Fix various search shortcut UX issues (#31903) · discourse/discourse@832ed8c · GitHub