I wanted to show the mobile keyboard in my responsive site. First at i tried to place a hidden input, with placeholder "tap here", but on this input i have an event, which when fires reloads the dom, and bucause of this a cannot able to show the keyboard.

The question is, there is a way to show the keyboard without an input? I'm using HTML5 doctype, and jQuery 2.

Thanks for the answers!

I wanted to show the mobile keyboard in my responsive site. First at i tried to place a hidden input, with placeholder "tap here", but on this input i have an event, which when fires reloads the dom, and bucause of this a cannot able to show the keyboard.

The question is, there is a way to show the keyboard without an input? I'm using HTML5 doctype, and jQuery 2.

Thanks for the answers!

• javascript
• jquery
• html
• mobile
• keyboard

• Why you want show keyboard without input? Set the keyboard visible if not used is a bad UX practice. – Mou Commented Dec 13, 2014 at 11:46
• Anyway, you can see this answer: stackoverflow./questions/6837543/… – Mou Commented Dec 13, 2014 at 11:47
• Because i'm building a game, which is using keyboard (keycodes) without inputs – Arpad Bajzath Commented Dec 13, 2014 at 11:48

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I'm afraid you can't open the keyboard without using a input. For more information you can read the following thread: Show virtual keyboard on mobile phones in javascript

If it is for a game, the best manner is create a propper layout with the buttons you want to use.