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HTML

<div id="some-test-element">Click me</a>

<div class="search">
   <input type="text" value"y u no work"/>
</div>

JavaScript

$('#some-test-element').click(function() {
     $('.search').find('input').focus(); // works
})
    
setTimeout(function() {
    //alert('test'); //works
    $('.search').find('input').focus(); // doesn't work
}, 5000);