If anyone wants to autoFocus on any field in an overlay (Modal/Pane) rather than using the native autoFocus attribute on the form element, use initialFocusRef. Create a ref and pass it to the form element, and pass the same ref to the prop initialFocusRef (present in both Modal and Pane). And if you are touching a file that currently has an autoFocus attribute on a form element inside of an overlay, please update it. We are now maintaining the logic inside of neetoUI for focusing elements and which elements should be focused by default, manually, on tabbing, and shift+tab through the overlay due to some a11y reasons. This was done to fix a known webkit bug for few safari versions. There is an issue with fields that are conditionally or dynamically rendered (for autoFocus). We will probably put a PR soon for this.