Set focus to a text_input

[TomJohn]

As I was researching this feature recently, two links:

Expose focus event, e.g. for `st.text_input`

Why does my text input not focus with script in component.html when sessionstore is unchanged?

Hello, I came across this topic when I was trying to find a way to .focus() a text input when the script is rerun The approach shown there works fine, but I would like to know why it only works when st.session_state['counter'] changes. It the line where it is incremented is commented the text box will not focus. If the counter increases, the text box is focused when the button is clicked, the text input is sent via Enter or the select box changes (every time the callback is triggered). Thi…