How can I hide the Android keyboard using JavaScript?

Solution 1:

I found a simpler solution that requires neither adding element nor a special class. found it there: http://www.sencha.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-141560.html

And converted the code to jquery :

function hideKeyboard(element) {
    element.attr('readonly', 'readonly'); // Force keyboard to hide on input field.
    element.attr('disabled', 'true'); // Force keyboard to hide on textarea field.
    setTimeout(function() {
        element.blur();  //actually close the keyboard
        // Remove readonly attribute after keyboard is hidden.
        element.removeAttr('readonly');
        element.removeAttr('disabled');
    }, 100);
}

You call the function by passing it the input from which the keyboard was opened, or just passing $('input') should also work.

Solution 2:

What you need to do is create a new input field, append it to the body, focus it and the hide it using display:none. You will need to enclose these inside some setTimeouts unfortunately to make this work.

var field = document.createElement('input');
field.setAttribute('type', 'text');
document.body.appendChild(field);

setTimeout(function() {
    field.focus();
    setTimeout(function() {
        field.setAttribute('style', 'display:none;');
    }, 50);
}, 50);

Solution 3:

You can now use inputmode=“none” on up to date browsers. See:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/inputmode