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In my UI I want that keyboard events Up/Down should be handled by the main scrollable list. This works but clicking on other elements can remove the focus. How do you implement such logic?

Perhaps rewording the second part will help. Is it a statement that sometimes clicking removes the focus? Or is it a question on how to combine custom key handling with focus handling?

Also, is this happening in Material components? In Jewel? In your custom list?

I want to keep the focus on the list. The screen consists of a Material3 Rail, a Column containing a top Row with buttons and a Box containing a Column with LazyColumn and VerticalScrollBar. The LazyColumn has Cards with buttons. Both the buttons in the top Row and the cards grab focus, even if the UI state has a FocusRequester that gets remembered and the list calls Modifier.focusRequester(). I would be interested in example code for this kind of problem.

You can make the buttons non-focusable with
```Modifier.focusProperties { canFocus = false }```

This works, thank you. The top bar buttons still grab focus but this is likely because the list is redrawn and some state changes.