That's a hack. You shouldn't be modifying DOM nodes from underneath Karax. That said, I can't blame you because I ran into this too. The way Karax handles this isn't ideal and I created an issue for this: [https://github.com/pragmagic/karax/issues/61](https://github.com/pragmagic/karax/issues/61).
TL;DR: Use `setInputText`.
