Perspective Single Select Dropdown - remains in edit state after clicking on clear icon

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We have a single select dropdown with placeholder text and show clear icon enabled.

Placeholder text is shown when nothing is selected.
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Once you select an option and clear it using clear icon as shown in the image below
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the dropdown remains in edit state instead of showing the placeholder text.
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Once you click somewhere else on the screen i.e. when dropdown loses focus, placeholder text is shown again.

This happens only for single select dropdown with showClearIcon = true , search -> enabled = true

Seen on Ignition 8.1.42 and 8.1.43.

The single select dropdown - clear icon click was working correctly on Ignition version 8.1.18. Observed this issue when upgraded to 8.1.42 recently.

Please advise.

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Yea it's a bit weird... I hope they fix that soon.
In the meantime, you can add an onActionPerformed script to your dropdown (or a change script, but I prefer events), and put this in it:

if currentValue.value is None:
	self.parent.focus()

This will switch the focus to the parent container of the dropdown, but you can target anything you want.

edit: Actually you could even remove the null check, if you'd rather unfocus the dropdown after a selection too.

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Thank you @pascal.fragnoud.
We handled this in the value change event and are shifting focus on another text input. This is working fine for us.