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For questions, bugs, or requests related to focus in the context of HTML elements, such as textboxes, used in Stack Exchange.

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This is more of a technical issue on my side and I am just trying to figure out the underlying issue. The last few days I've been having the problem of editing an answer (in https://math.stackexchange....
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I'd like the body input field of an answer post's inline editor to be automatically focused when the inline editor gets opened. At least in my personal workflow, when I open an answer post's inline ...
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New Focus Styles We’ve released a design update to focus styles across the many components within our design system and as well as a new design for our button group component. See more details on how ...
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The recent design change of adding a visible border around textboxes when they're focused is a good thing IMO. However, when applied to elements such as radio buttons, it can just look weird, e.g. in ...
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I noticed that in all Stack Exchange sites, when I focus any textbox, there is now a very visible blue border/outline around it. Was this outline intentionally added, and if so, what is its purpose? ...
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This would be nice for quality-of-life for keyboard users. Save me some completely unnecessary key-presses would you? (Or explain to me why they're not completely unnecessary) Also, while we're at it, ...
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After clicking "add/edit private note", the text input for the private note appears, but it isn't focused automatically. I don't like having to move my user-agent's focus (either by pointer ...
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The comment flag "Something else" option will auto-focus the text input field when selected. But the same is not true for the "In need of moderator intervention" flag reason for ...
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When selecting some of the buttons under a question or an answer using a mouse (for e.g., the Follow, Close/Reopen, Flag and Delete buttons), the button has a highlight around it, as the GIF below ...
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A few months ago the "edit tags" link on SO and Meta SO stopped focusing the tag field when clicking the link. Was this an intentional change, or a bug that's been ignored? If intentional, ...
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Context I really often vote on questions and answers. I really do. I don't if I read it partially or so. But I keep seeing this annoying banner even if I see a given question for the first time. It ...
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When I'm using tab to move the focus around on the page, most things have a visual indication of where the focus is (which is a relatively recent change; thank you). I often use this to flag comments -...
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As a 10k user, I can edit tags only: However, after clicking it, the tags field does not get auto focus like it used to do before. I start typing and.... nothing happens. I need to focus the field ...
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I often find my self wanting to copy an image (not the url, but the image) and 'paste' it into an answer. Here's what I mean by copy: To do this I love to use the Stack Exchange keyboard shortcuts. ...
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Clicking on an Add Comment focuses on the comment area but when there are more than 5 comments on the post an then you get this: (example) Clicking the "add / show 14 more comments" doesn't focus ...
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