Hello Dash Community! My question: How to set focus on element (for examle input line) by means of Dash? Is it possible?

You could put a JavaScript file in your /assets folder , possibly with a Clientside callback (see the relevant section at the bottom of the page). You could then use the HTMLElement.focus() function from the Web API. For example, given a component with the id text_input_id, you would call document.ge…

Thank you! Clienside callback is very usefull! But I do not understand how can I handle events in this case? Can I handle events as well as in usual javacript or not? For instance, the code ‘’’ JS window.dash_clientside = Object.assign({}, window.dash_clientside, { test_clear: function(ch) { e…

Thank you very much! I have done everything what I wanted.

@oansh , could you please post your solution here? I need to achieve the same (and I’m not very familiar with JS). Thanks a lot!

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dan_baker December 31, 2020, 7:07pm 6

Just in case anyone has run into this problem. Think I’ve solved it with a clientside callback with embedded javascript straight into the dash app. No separate .js file needed.

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