Quick hack for selecting a TextField?

Unity Engine
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What I want:
Listen for KeyDownEvent on a TextField. If the key is Return, clear the TextField contents. Accept more input.

Right now, when hitting return, the element simply deselects and no more text is registered. I tried downloading the Castle Crashers UI demo to see if they have a text input anywhere but its just a black screen.

Calling .Focus() on myTextField doesn’t do anything. Any workarounds for selecting a TextField after hitting Return on it?

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focusController.focusedElement says its the same element focus, before and after hitting Return

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I figured it out. To focus on a TextField after you’ve hit Return on it, you have to wait a frame, call .Blur(), then .Focus()

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Hi @BackgroundMover !

Here’s what the custom logic to override a default behaviour on the TextField would look like. The PreventDefault is important here as it prevents the default TextField logic from being executed. In the case of return, it triggers a focus change which might be why you have to manually add focus back to the element.

myField.RegisterCallback<KeyDownEvents>((evt) => {
            if (evt.keyCode == KeyCode.Enter || evt.character == '/n')
            {
                evt.StopPropagation();
                evt.PreventDefault();
            }
}, TrickleDown.TrickleDown);