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Autocomplete focus when inside a dialog

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Bug, feature request, or proposal:

Bug

What is the expected behavior?

When opening a dialog the autocomplete doesn’t have focus. Expected: https://angular-qgx8sh.stackblitz.io/

What is the current behavior?

When opening a dialog my autocomplete get focussed.

What are the steps to reproduce?

Just open a dialog with data of the states in it: this.dialog.open(SlideInToolbar, { width: '150px', data: { states: this.states } });

And inside the dialog an autocomplete with: <mat-option *ngFor="let item of data.states" [value]="item.name">

https://angular-omzvev.stackblitz.io/

What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior?

I want to implement a autocomplete in a dialog without focus.

Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected?

Angular: 4.4.4 Material: 2.0.0-beta.12

Issue Analytics

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Created 6 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:8 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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willshowellcommented, Oct 24, 2017

Depending on your situation, a better solution may be to add cdk-focus-initial to whichever element you want to focus first.

<div mat-dialog-content cdk-focus-initial> ... </div>

https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-tksjrg?file=app%2Ftoolbar.html

1reaction

amcdnlcommented, Oct 23, 2017

This is working by design.

https://github.com/angular/material2/blob/master/src/lib/dialog/dialog-container.ts#L150

When the dialog opens it needs to switch the focus from the button that initiated the dialog the a focusable element in the dialog ( your input in this case ).

You can get around this by adding tabindex="-1" to the input like so: https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-rrfabk

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