Force soft keyboard up on Android and iOS

[Ralph]

Hi all,

I have a textarea for text input. When the text is input, a send button is clicked and the text is cleared. How to keep the soft keyboard up there after the text is cleared? 

Thanks.

[Alexander Valchev]

Hello Ralph,

I am afraid that your question is not directly related to KendoUI, but to general mobile development knowledge. I believe that this stackoverflow thread might help you.

Kind regards,
Alexander Valchev
the Telerik team

[Ralph]

Hi,

After reading the link, I used the following method to obtain the focus.
I use the onclick property instead of data-click property to call my original function, which calls the focus() method of the textarea and makes the keyboard kept focused.

Thanks.

BR,
Ralph

[Ralph]

Hi,

I found that my hack on iOS got some problem.

When user tap on the button, the keyboard does hide, and at the same time the function does not trigger! Only by tapping on the button again the function triggers and the keyboard is shown again.

I tried to use the property of data-click again but the keyboard is not focused anymore. Do we have any hacks on Kendo UI mobile for such kind of functional needs?

[Petyo]

Hi Ralph,

If I understand you correctly, you may consider experimenting with delaying the execution of the code using setTimeout with a certain delay. 

Regards,
Petyo
Telerik