IE9 focus not switching when opening keyboard

[semmelbroesel]

Hi.

I feel for you with all the crazy IE stuff - I'm trying to get one of my own projects IE compatible and was having trouble with a jquery placeholder script to work with your keyboard code, but then I realized that you have a watermark feature built-in, so I went back to your site using IE9 and found this bug:
Using the very first example, if I click into the text field, the keyboard opens, but the blinking cursor stays focused on the text field behind, not the keyboard text field. I hope this screen explains what I'm trying to say.

I'm using IE9 32bit on Windows 7 64bit in case it helps.

Thanks!

[Mottie]

Hi @semmelbroesel!

Yeah, I know about that bug... I'm not sure how to work around it. It seems all IE versions do it. I've set a delay then focus on that input and it still doesn't work.

The only two ways I've found around that problem are to either set the usePreview option to false or start typing on the virtual keyboard.

If you know of why IE doesn't like giving focus to that input, then I would love to hear it.

[semmelbroesel]

Hm, that gave me an idea...
Maybe you could use the typing simulation for this - maybe set it to automatically type a space and a backspace ... Would that maybe work as a workaround?
(I'm not at work again until Monday, and that's where I have all my code, so I can't check until then).

[Mottie]

Hey you're right! But, actually you don't need to type anything in:

$('#keyboard').keyboard({
    visible : function(e, keyboard, el) {
        keyboard.typeIn('', 10);
    }
}).addTyping();

Well, at least with that working, I have something to work with to figure out a better internal method... shakes fist at IE

Thanks!

[semmelbroesel]

Hey, I didn't actually expect this to work (I'm a web developer, too, so I know just a bit about IE as well and don't expect it to ever play nicely), but as a workaround, it might just do :-)
Glad I had a useful idea :-)

[Mottie]

Yay, some more weirdness... that seems to work in a live demo, but not locally 😡

[Mottie]

This issue should now be resolved. If you continue to have problems, please leave a comment. Thanks!