iOS Textbox Focusing

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Levie Rufenacht asked 2017-07-13 20:17:59 UTC

I am having issues getting my iOS devices to focus on textbox controls.

I can't see the cursor when it focuses.  It looks like the cursor shows up for a split second, but then disappears.  It works fine on desktop, but not on the other devices.

[itg-assistant]

Frank (ITG) answered 2017-07-17 18:34:17 UTC

Hi Levie,

I have tried on my Iphone 6 with our ProgressSample: http://demo.wisej.com/ProgressSample
and it seems to work ok. Can you please try that one on your device ? What device is it ?
Do you observe this behavior with a standard Wisej textbox ?
If not, any chance to share a link or some code snippet ?

Thanks in advance !

Best regards
Frank

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Levie Rufenacht answered 2017-07-17 19:04:02 UTC

It works when I click in it my bad, but I am not able to use .focus() or .select() to programmatically give the control focus in iOS… It works fine in Android and desktop.

Ideally as soon as the window loads I would like to have the cursor automatically placed in the textbox.

Thanks
Levie

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Frank (ITG) answered 2017-07-19 10:02:43 UTC

Levie, this seems to be an IOS feature, i.e. it´s by design not to show the keyboard after calling focus(). There seems to be no workaround, it only work if focus() is called while handling a touch event on the client. See several threads here: https://www.google.de/search?q=ios+focus()+keyboard&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari&gfe_rd=cr&ei=fu5uWZG7CczW8gfrwZ3YDw&gws_rd=cr Best regards, Frank