# The welcome banner search input loses focus after selecting a result

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-welcome-banner-search-input-loses-focus-after-selecting-a-result/359934>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** search, accessibility\
**Created:** [April 1, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-welcome-banner-search-input-loses-focus-after-selecting-a-result/359934 "2025-04-01T23:52:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arkshine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/arkshine/32/298682_2.png) [@Arkshine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arkshine)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-welcome-banner-search-input-loses-focus-after-selecting-a-result/359934/3 "2025-04-03T00:47:12Z")

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> [@manuel](#):
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> For example using the keyboard shortcut `/` for search opens and focuses the header search, even when the search banner is rendered

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](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/832ed8ce748982311e5ed654a9110fc608a03bf8)

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