How to avoid textfield to clear when multiselect loses focus?

[Uriel]

I followed this example to add values to the multiselect without using a popup, but I noticed that whenever the multiselect loses its focus, the text that has been typed on it disappears.

I wish to avoid this behavior, since it would be annoying to a user to type something and click somewhere else and that value to be lost.

Is this possible?

[Martin]

Hello Uriel,

Thank you for the provided example.

Please refer to this Stackoverflow thread that discusses the same problem. I have also modified your example according to the shared approach.

Let me know how that works for you, or if any further changes are necessary.

Regards,
Martin
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