Change Text Entry Variable without control losing focus?

You all are rock stars! I know just enough JavaScript to be dangerous, though I love the extensibility it adds to Storyline. Inspired by your code, I wanted to use the contents of the input box to simulate a search box, so I added this.

Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.acc-textinput')).forEach(el => {
    el.addEventListener('keyup', () => {
        console.log('someone is typing in a box...');
        el.blur();
        el.focus();
    })
});
var player = GetPlayer();
var searchentry = player.GetVar("SearchEntry");
searchentry= Array[1] + Array[2] + Array[3];

player.setVar("SearchEntry",searchentry);