Select Component: Keyboard focus vanishes when selected + reopened

[uvulpos]

Describe the bug

After you entered a value and want to reopen it, the focus is gone

Screen.Recording.2025-10-23.at.03.22.20.mov

Reproduction

Select component does not accept empty string, null, undefined nor "-" values, otherwise a11y does not work. Either a workaround is needed or at least a warning in the documentation would be nice

System Info

System:
    OS: macOS 26.x.x
    CPU: arm64 Apple M1
  Binaries:
    Node: 24.10.0 
    npm: 11.6.1 
    pnpm: 8.14.1 
  Browsers:
    Brave Browser: 141.1.x.x

Severity

annoyance

[huntabyte]

I'm not able to reproduce on the docs, so a reproduction would be great here to debug.

CleanShot.2025-10-22.at.22.16.31.mp4

[github-actions]

Please provide a reproduction.

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[uvulpos]

Found the bug! The issues occurrs, if the value is empty string "". If it is some value, it works, but means my default value destroys the focus. No selection as a show all option is required

[uvulpos]

Screen.Recording.2025-10-25.at.21.24.44.mov

[uvulpos]

workaround null and "-" seems to be not the answer as well

[huntabyte]

Will look into this!

[uvulpos]

Got a working workaround after changing the default Value to "no_user_selected". Now I can work with it