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user984749
user984749

Reputation: 89

Hide/Disable iPad Popup Keyboard

My webpage is a form with many text boxes. I have created my own popup keyboard which is much smaller than the iPad one thereby saving a lot of screen real estate, especially in Landscape mode. My problem is that when I select a text box for entry the iPad keyboard appears.

Is there anyway through JavaScript to hide and disable the iPad keyboard.

Thanks,

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3820

Answers (1)

Jerry Saravia
Jerry Saravia

Reputation: 3837

Not to put your idea down in any way, honest. It's bad practice generally to try and 'supplant' the user's device for several reasons.

They might have a special keyboard tailored the way they want.

Their device might be in chinese, japanese, etc.

It's better to let the device itself handle this. In most devices there is absolutely no way to disable the default keyboard.

Problems I can see, besides the above ones are, what happens in devices that are 'mobile' but have a physical keyboard? Like the windows tablets. Do you account for different languages? All of them? Do you provide a way to switch between them? Can you set a default language so user's don't ALWAYS have to switch?

I'd suggest not using your own popup keyboard. Let the device handle it.

Also, check out UX Stackexchange and ask for some input there. They'll have better suggestions.

Upvotes: 1

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