# Filter box gets blocked after deleting filter expression with keyboard

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-box-gets-blocked-after-deleting-filter-expression-with-keyboard/57599
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [June 11, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-box-gets-blocked-after-deleting-filter-expression-with-keyboard/57599 "2022-06-11T14:03:14Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2022, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-box-gets-blocked-after-deleting-filter-expression-with-keyboard/57599/7 "2022-06-11T16:54:46Z")

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What you noticed is absolutely normal Windows behaviour and it has been like that for ages.  
Try it with any dropdown box in MP3tag or any other application where a user input is possible for a dropdown list: there are 2 modes.

- scroll mode
- edit mode

and you switch between the 2 either with another click or Cursor down

Also see:

> [@Filter box gets blocked after writing in it a new filtering expression](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-box-gets-blocked-after-writing-in-it-a-new-filtering-expression/57600/2):
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> I do not see anything "blocking" the filter box. A "blocking" would mean to me that no further input is ever possible. This is not the case as functions are immedidately available after another click into the filter box. The behaviour that you describe applies to any combo-box. As soon as you change to edit mode, mouse wheel scrolling is disabled. You can recognize the edit mode that the selection disappears and the keyboard cursor appears. If you click into that combo-box again, the mouse …

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