Custom Virtual Keyboard For Text Fields

Category: Form , Javascript | October 19, 2018
Author:stephen31
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Last Update:October 19, 2018
License:MIT

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Custom Virtual Keyboard For Text Fields

Description:

Yet another on-screen virtual keyboard plugin for text fields (input and textarea), built in pure JavaScript.

Install & Import:

# Yarn
$ yarn add virtual-keyboard-plugin
# NPM
$ npm install virtual-keyboard-plugin --save
import VirtualKeyboard from 'virtual-keyboard-plugin';
const virtualkeyboardintance = new VirtualKeyboard().launchVirtualKeyboard();

How to use it:

Import the Virtual Keyboard’s JavaScript and Stylesheet into the document.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="virtual-keyboard.css">
<script src="virtual-keyboard.min.js"></script>

Add the ‘virtual-keyboard’ attribute to target text fields as follows:

<input id="demo" type="text" virtual-keyboard>
<textarea id="demo" virtual-keyboard></textarea>

Create a trigger element to toggle the virtual keyboard when needed.

<div class="virtual-keyboard-hook" 
     data-target-id="demo">
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</div>

Set the keyboard mapping whatever you like.

<div class="virtual-keyboard-hook" 
     data-target-id="demo"
     data-keyboard-mapping="qwerty">
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</div>
<div class="virtual-keyboard-hook" 
     data-target-id="demo"
     data-keyboard-mapping="azerty">
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</div>

Changelog:

v1.2.1 (10/19/2018)

  • [Bug] Fixing delete of multiple selected characters + Improving size of the library

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