I’m working with a bar code scanner that is used to scan data & populate a web page. For this to work I a specific element on the web page to have focus. This is working, unless the F12 tools are open & then the Developer Tools have focus.

Is there a way to stop this? FYI, I tried undocking the F12 tools but the same thing happened, which is the scanner output goes to the F12 tools not the web page.