# Add auto-focus to core app searches

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-auto-focus-to-core-app-searches/235782>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 4, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-auto-focus-to-core-app-searches/235782 "2020-06-04T14:26:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![AlexH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@AlexH](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AlexH)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-auto-focus-to-core-app-searches/235782/1 "2020-06-04T14:26:37Z")

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In Kibana, when navigating to Discover, Visualizations, Dashboards, Canvas, etc., I can choose from existing objects or make a new one. Usually I will choose from existing objects, so I need to now click into the textbox and start typing. Every time.

Can you add an auto-focus on the search textbox, so I can go straight from navigating to Discover to typing in the name the search I want? This would be a welcome usability update.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![mikecote](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mikecote/32/58549_2.png) [@mikecote](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mikecote)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-auto-focus-to-core-app-searches/235782/2 "2020-06-18T16:15:02Z")

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Hi @AlexH,

In regards to enhancement requests, feel free to open up an issue in the Kibana GitHub repository: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new).

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**Author:** ![AlexH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@AlexH](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AlexH)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-auto-focus-to-core-app-searches/235782/3 "2020-06-18T17:30:33Z")

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Done. Thank you. 👍

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-auto-focus-to-core-app-searches/235782/4 "2020-07-16T17:30:36Z")

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