# Dashboard Text Input Node - Send value on focus leave
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-text-input-node-send-value-on-focus-leave/61816
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [26 April 2022 20:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-text-input-node-send-value-on-focus-leave/61816 "2022-04-26T20:27:25Z")
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### Author:  [@dudleyjosh](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dudleyjosh)
#### Post date: [26 April 2022 20:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-text-input-node-send-value-on-focus-leave/61816/1 "2022-04-26T20:27:26Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Dashboard Text Input node focus issues](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-text-input-node-focus-issues/58884):
I just ran into this very same issue (text input node doesn't always send message on focus leave) today... and I have the same issue with trying to re-create it as quoted below.
> [@Dashboard Text Input node focus issues](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-text-input-node-focus-issues/58884/3):
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> I tried, but the problem is that it does not happen every time. If I try to do a simple flow for testing with only one text input node, it works and the value is sent whenever I change focus (click outside the field, for instance).
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> When I test it on the whole thing, sometimes it will work fine, but mostly doesn't. It is very strange.
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### Author:  [@OriolFM](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/OriolFM)
#### Post date: [27 April 2022 12:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-text-input-node-send-value-on-focus-leave/61816/2 "2022-04-27T12:51:25Z")
Glad to know I'm not the only one suffering from this issue. Hopefully someone can help us find why (and how to fix it).
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### Author:  [@dudleyjosh](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dudleyjosh)
#### Post date: [28 April 2022 14:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-text-input-node-send-value-on-focus-leave/61816/3 "2022-04-28T14:54:24Z")
Here are some screen shots of the dashboard UI that I am having this issue with.
The text input fields boxed in yellow are the ones where I experience this issue. I originally had all of the fields set to a Delay of "0" because nothing needs to be continuously updated as it is being entered. After dealing with the issue, I changed all of the input fields in the "Marking Text" section to the default "300" to ensure they get updated when data is changed/entered. I needed to leave the three fields in the "Marking Parameters" section set to "0" however because as-is I get error messages as the numbers are entered because I am using a "Change node" with JSONata to cast those text fields as numbers after they are typed in (I understand that I can set those input fields to "number" mode but there is a specific reason I have them set to "text input").
As I am writing this up and closely looking at screen shots, I am now thinking the issue as something to do with the message at the bottom of the text input window that states...
`Setting Delay to 0 waits for Enter or Tab key, to send input.`
I am now thinking this means that it ignores the "Send value on focus leave" checkbox and ONLY sends with an Enter or Tab key press.
I would prefer it not ignore that checkbox and ALSO send on focus leave, but this is my best guess as to why it is behaving this way.
I quickly looked at the code for the `ui_text_input` node on GitHub and perhaps this line is what drives this behavior?
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### Author:  [@OriolFM](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/OriolFM)
#### Post date: [28 April 2022 15:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-text-input-node-send-value-on-focus-leave/61816/4 "2022-04-28T15:11:17Z")
I had all of my text input with delay 0.
My process is that I wait for the field to be complete, then when the focus leaves or I press enter, I update the JSON and push it to a MySQL DB not to lose the data.
Updating every n milliseconds would generate way too many queries and slow down the application.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [28 May 2022 15:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-text-input-node-send-value-on-focus-leave/61816/5 "2022-05-28T15:12:06Z")
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