Creative inventory on search screen can't be closed using inventory keybinding

use escape, or just select a different tab; pressing the inventory key in the search tab does not close the tab intentionally.

@FVbico
Just edited my own bug report of that, when I saw it was marked as resolved because duplicate etc, but no comment with it so I'll copy / past my edit here :

"I did search for that issue before posting but couldn't find anything. Now I see duplicates of two other bug reports with that, and it's said there it's "intended".
I'm honestly not sure about that, since it WAS working before (as long as using something else than a key that can write). So why would that change ? It may not be the most annoying bug ever, but it was useful to be able to close the inventory despite being in the search tab. And, as far as I know, there's no reason to stop that from being possible. Yes we can use "Escape", but that's not the key I binded for that, that's not the one I would bind even if I could, it's far from the keys I use (being left-handed, my hand for the keyboard is more around the arrow keys. No need to tell pressing "Escape" is anything but handy). And yes I can switch to another tab, but that's annoying if I often need to get something in the search tab (which is the most convenient one to find what you need)."

Thanks in advance for your reply, I hope.

This is looking quite intended.
How else would you be able to search for something consisting the inventory key (default "e")?

Indeed it could be intended and if you use the Default Key it makes sense. But as Akunki says if you use another Key, in my case it is [TAB] for the inventory, when you press [TAB] nothing is happening.. So it would be nice to have this feature back, because it was very handy.
You save like 1 Second each time, that sounds not so much but in the long run it's making a diffence.

@Kumasasa
It may be intented, indeed, and of course it completely makes sense when the key bound to "open / close inventory" can be needed to write in the search field, like the default [E].
However, when you bind to that another key, like [TAB] for Christof or [ENTER] for myself, it would work in 1.12.2 and before. Also, there are high chances that the devs just didn't realize about that, so that whatever they did, they probably didn't expect such a thing. Actually, maybe they even expected that nobody would notice any difference ?

In any case, having bound a key that could close the inventory while on the search is something that I found really useful, and I truly miss that :/

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Alternatively, maybe a simple "Close Search Inventory" command could be added ? (or whatever name it would have) The other one would still be "Open / Close Inventory", so having nothing bound to "Close Search Inventory" would not change anything from how things are right now in snapshots. And it could be bound to the same key than "Open / Close...", since these are two actions that cannot conflict. Of course, it would mean that a key like [E] could work as well (else it wouldn't make sense to add that "Close Search..."). I think it would just be a good thing to make sure people understand well what this key would do, maybe with a popup (else, some could bind something like [E], not understanding what this is exactly, then forget, and think their search inventory closing is a bug). Also, "Close Search..." would be right under "Open / Close...", maybe even with some indentation (to show even better they are related).

Confirming that this is still an issue in 1.20.1

On that note, if it “works as intended” why does the setting say that I can use it to close my inventory when clearly I can’t? Additionally, that game requires you to use the escape key to exit the inventory, which is both tedious as it is far from my hand and unnecessarily restrictive since it’s not what I bound. As many people have pointed out before, a simple fix would be to add a separate key to close the inventory when in creative mode. 

Mojang, please fix

You can close it, just not when you're on the search menu (or it would obstruct typing).

When searching, you don't need to use tab. It doesn't do anything while typing in the search box and doesn't close the creative menu.

I've been following and reporting on this issue for a while now and given the complete lack of consideration from mojang, pointing out (very) valid reasons here is next to useless in getting this fixed.

They believe accessibility is above and beyond any other user preference, and other obtuse decisions like auto-jump on by default confirms this. That being said, maybe there is hope for this to be addressed properly at some point, but unless you open a new ticket and make sure it gets enough user complaints to show them that people care about this, I doubt will be treated differently.

In the meantime your best bet is to use mods that restore this functionality instead.

Please stop using this comment section as a forum for discussions. Also, "Works as Intended" is a resolution from source code perspective, and does not reflect company intentions or future plans.