diff --git a/src/jsMain/kotlin/net/kyori/adventure/webui/js/Main.kt b/src/jsMain/kotlin/net/kyori/adventure/webui/js/Main.kt
index 3159b3b..c6abe88 100644
--- a/src/jsMain/kotlin/net/kyori/adventure/webui/js/Main.kt
+++ b/src/jsMain/kotlin/net/kyori/adventure/webui/js/Main.kt
@@ -136,18 +136,7 @@ public fun mainLoaded() {
     )
 
     // WEBSOCKET
-    webSocket =
-        if (window.location.hostname == "localhost" ||
-            window.location.hostname == "127.0.0.1"
-        ) {
-            WebSocket("ws://${window.location.host}$URL_API$URL_MINI_TO_HTML")
-        } else {
-            WebSocket("wss://${window.location.host}$URL_API$URL_MINI_TO_HTML")
-        }
-    webSocket.onopen = { onWebsocketReady() }
-    webSocket.onclose = { onWebsocketClose() }
-    // A closed websocket will be handled by the above, but log the error to console for debugging sake
-    webSocket.onerror = { err -> console.log("Websocket error: $err") }
+    startWebsocket()
 
     // CORRECT HOME LINK
     document.element<HTMLAnchorElement>("home-link").href = homeUrl
@@ -416,6 +405,18 @@ private fun readPlaceholders(): Placeholders {
     return Placeholders(stringPlaceholders = stringPlaceholders)
 }
 
+private fun startWebsocket() {
+    webSocket =  if (window.location.hostname == "localhost" || window.location.hostname == "127.0.0.1") {
+        WebSocket("ws://${window.location.host}$URL_API$URL_MINI_TO_HTML")
+    } else {
+        WebSocket("wss://${window.location.host}$URL_API$URL_MINI_TO_HTML")
+    }
+    webSocket.onopen = { onWebsocketReady() }
+    webSocket.onclose = { startWebsocket() }
+    // A closed websocket will be handled by the above, but log the error to console for debugging sake
+    webSocket.onerror = { err -> console.log("Websocket error: $err") }
+}
+
 private fun onWebsocketReady() {
     // SHARING
     val inputBox = document.element<HTMLTextAreaElement>("input")
@@ -494,16 +495,6 @@ private fun onWebsocketReady() {
         }
 }
 
-private fun onWebsocketClose() {
-    // We no longer have a working websocket connection, so any input changes would not go through. Display a little
-    // warning to the user and disable the input box to bring more attention to it, since changing the input would
-    // have no effect at this point anyway.
-    val warning = document.element<HTMLTextAreaElement>("connection-lost-warning")
-    val inputBox = document.element<HTMLTextAreaElement>("input")
-    warning.hidden = false
-    inputBox.disabled = true
-}
-
 private fun checkClickEvents(target: EventTarget?, typesToCheck: Collection<EventType>) {
     if (target is HTMLSpanElement && target.classList.contains(COMPONENT_CLASS)) {
         val remainingTypesToCheck = mutableSetOf<EventType>()