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Knockout – removing automatic focus from an input

in my project I have a UI Component written in knockout.js. The problem I’ve encountered is when overwriting ui-select.html even though I don’t have any action anywhere that would cause this, when clicking on the parent it automatically triggers focus on the input.

The default events on the parent of this input, such as selecting text with the cursor, do not work….

Is there any method in knockout that would automatically add focus on input, and disable default pointer-events on its parent?