HTMLElement: virtualKeyboardPolicy property

Limited availability

The virtualKeyboardPolicy property of the HTMLElement 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 the contenteditable attribute set).

It reflects the value of the virtualkeyboardpolicy 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 manually
element.virtualKeyboardPolicy = "manual";

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• virtualkeyboardpolicy HTML global attribute