JQuery focus() method on the ipad [duplicate]

Answer 1

<input>
<a href="#" class="label">Click</a>
$('.label').mouseup(function(){ $('input').focus(); });

it work on my project. just use "mouseup" to capture event and "focus" on input

via http://www.quora.com/Mobile-Safari-iPhone-or-iPad-with-JavaScript-how-can-I-launch-the-on-screen-keyboard

Answer 2

Unfortunately, the only way to get a keyboard to show, is during a user initiated event. This is something I've been fighting with myself as of late.

Below, ilumin has a good solution, but it's not the only one. Basically, from what I've found, as long as your are performing your .focus() function call inside of a user event (such as mouseup, or any of the touch events [which is probably preferred for a touch device]), then you shouldn't have a problem.

To an extent I understand why Apple made this limitation, but at the same time, it has made my work very challenging.

Answer 3

Unfortunately, you will only see the keyboard pop up when you focus in a text field. See this answer.