HTMLElement: virtualKeyboardPolicy property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental:This is anexperimental technology
Check theBrowser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

ThevirtualKeyboardPolicy property of theHTMLElement interface gets and sets a string indicating the on-screen virtual keyboard behavior on devices such as tablets, mobile phones, or other devices where a hardware keyboard may not be available, if the element's content is editable (for example, it is an<input> or<textarea> element, or an element with thecontenteditable attribute set).

It reflects the value of thevirtualkeyboardpolicy HTML global attribute.

Value

An enumerated value; possible values are:

"auto" or an empty string (""): The browser automatically shows the virtual keyboard when the user taps or focuses the element.
"manual": The browser does not automatically show the virtual keyboard: showing/hiding the virtual keyboard is handled manually by the script.

Examples

The following example shows how to control the on-screen virtual keyboard behavior via script:

const element = document.querySelector("input");// the on-screen virtual keyboard behavior will be controlled by script manuallyelement.virtualKeyboardPolicy = "manual";