October 10, 2011

Javascript: Hide the iOS soft keyboard

I was having some trouble getting my text input field to relieve itself of focus on the iPhone, and after a little searching, I came up with a couple options. It's pretty self-explanatory. The 2nd line will de-focus all input fields, and it relies on jQuery. I found that calling blur() on the single focused textfield didn't always work. Either one of these lines should work independently, but both of them together cannot be stopped!
var hideKeyboard = function() {
	document.activeElement.blur();
	$("input").blur();
};

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