virtualkeyboardpolicy HTML global attribute
Limited availability
This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The virtualkeyboardpolicy global attribute is an enumerated attribute. When specified on an element that the element's content is editable (for example, it is an <input> or <textarea> element, or an element with the contenteditable attribute set), it controls the on-screen virtual keyboard behavior on devices such as tablets, mobile phones, or other devices where a hardware keyboard may not be available.
The attribute must take one of the following values:
-
autoor an empty string, which automatically shows the virtual keyboard when the element is focused or tapped. -
manual, which decouples focus and tap on the element from the virtual keyboard's state.
Specifications
Browser compatibility
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
virtualkeyboardpolicy |
94 | 94 | No | 80 | No | 94 | No | 66 | No | 17.0 | 94 | No |
See also
- All global attributes
-
HTMLElement.contentEditableandHTMLElement.isContentEditable - The VirtualKeyboard API
© 2005–2025 MDN contributors.
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License v2.5 or later.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Global_attributes/virtualkeyboardpolicy
