Manually triggering the iPhone/iPad/iPod keyboard from JavaScript

Question

I am developing an HTML code editor using simple DIV\'s and capturing events. When I use this on the iPad the keyboard never pops up since i\'m not technically in an editab

Answer 1

The answers to this questions suggest that it's not possible: Why doesn't @contenteditable work on the iPhone?

A colleague of mine who was working on a similar project ended up using a textarea for the iPad version of his editor, and contenteditable divs/spans for browsers that support contenteditable. Perhaps something similar would work for you.