Limited Availability

Virtual keyboard

The navigator.virtualKeyboard API inspects and controls on-screen virtual keyboards. You can use it to programmatically hide or show a virtual keyboard or respond to the keyboard disappearing or appearing.

Baseline Status: This feature is currently Limited (not yet Baseline). Latest engine implementation shipped on Sep 24, 2021.

Desktop Browser Engine Support

Google Chrome

94

Supported

Mozilla Firefox

—

Unsupported

Apple Safari

—

Unsupported

Microsoft Edge

94

Supported

Mobile Browser Engine Support

Chrome Android

94

Firefox Android

—

Safari iOS

—

Specifications and References

Specification ↗ Feature XML ↗

MDN Browser Compat Data Keys:

api.HTMLElement.virtualKeyboardPolicy ↗ api.Navigator.virtualKeyboard ↗ api.VirtualKeyboard ↗ api.VirtualKeyboard.boundingRect ↗ api.VirtualKeyboard.geometrychange_event ↗ api.VirtualKeyboard.hide ↗ api.VirtualKeyboard.overlaysContent ↗ api.VirtualKeyboard.show ↗ html.global_attributes.virtualkeyboardpolicy ↗