Input Search Field Won’t Focus After Click Magnifying Glass – 2.0

Hi Dan,

Sure, I can try. Can you please turn off asset minification, as right now every single script is delegated to some sort of a nitro CDN, so I can’t tell what the original source is.
Without that I might be able to pinpoint by blocking scripts one by one and then check the script file source.

Thanks!

Turns out that is not caused by anything, but it is a recent change in Apple IOS mobile devices. I have found this topic about it.

Basically it is not possible to focus an input box programmatically after a timeout or asynchronous request on any iPhone within the latest IOS versions. I couldn’t find out why is that, but it is limited by the device and not by a script or the browser.

Yea, sure!

It seems like it has something to do with the dialog, perhaps something with the settings, but I’m not sure. It’s part of Elementor, so you probably don’t want to disable that. I can’t tell if it’s the core script or something hooking into it though, most likely hook somewhere, but that’s impossible to find.

What I found though is that this script should get around it, I just tested and it worked from the console:

add_action('wp_footer', function () {
	?>
	<script>
		const f = ( select = false ) => {
			let input = document.querySelector('.dialog-widget .asp_m input.orig');
			if ( input === null ) {
				return;
			}
			input.focus();
			if ( select ) {
				input.setSelectionRange(0, 9999);
			}

		}
		jQuery(document).on('elementor/popup/show', ()=>{
			setTimeout(()=>{f(true);}, 800);
			document.querySelectorAll(".asp_main_container").forEach((el) => {
				el.addEventListener("asp_search_end", () => {
					setTimeout(()=>{f();}, 500);
				});
			});
		});
	</script>
	<?php
}, 999999);

I understand, but the main issue is that it is not caused by Ajax Search Pro itself. There is no single piece of code that unfocuses the input field, it’s not possible to configure the plugin that way, it wouldn’t make sense at all.

If it’s only IOS the issue, all we have is to keep trying to workaround. I’m willing to help with it, even though it is way out of scope of support.

Can you please check if IOS phones is the only case where the code doesn’t work? I was working on a different feature where I found a yet uknown workaround for asynchronous IOS iPhone input focus which should work very well in this case too.
If every other device works and only IOS is left, then there is hope.