iPhone Mobile Safari: Force keyboard open

Question

This is an HTML / CSS / JS (jQuery) iPad app. I\'ve got a button, that slides down an input form. I\'d like to focus the user on the input, and then launch the keyboard.

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Answer 1

Try:

$('#element').blur().focus();

or if that does not work:

$('#element').focus().blur().focus();

blur() eliminates the focus and focus() brings it back. For some reason, it works every time compared to focus() working once in a while on its own.