How do I force the keyboard to stay open in Safari?

Is there a manual way to force the keyboard to be displayed whenever I want in Safari?
I know it will pop up when I click on Search or the address bar, but I need to have it displayed while I'm reading a web page.

Thanks.
Roxy

IMAC G5, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jan 31, 2011 12:24 PM

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Julian Wright

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Posted on Jan 31, 2011 12:54 PM

As I already mentioned, the keyboard will automatically and only appear when a text input field is active. That is the way it is designed and you cannot change that. You will have access to the keyboard whenever access to it is required.

I still don't understand why you would choose to obscure half of the screen with a keyboard when you're not even using it.

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Feb 17, 2014 5:57 AM in response to Julian Wright

Two reasons it would be handy to be able to force the keyboard to appear:

Typing in a date or time in the calendar instead of playing slot machine to get the right one.

Typing the name of a folder in Mail to file a message.

I'm sure there are others. My BlackBerry could do both of these things.

Oct 2, 2016 1:20 AM in response to Jose Abreu

The accepted answer for this question is incorrect. I have the opposite problem. My websites have a problem where the keyboard is popping up all the time when there is no input boxes at all on the site!

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Jan 31, 2011 1:00 PM in response to Julian Wright

Ok. Thanks.

Roxy

Sdmtylr

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Apr 19, 2017 2:44 PM in response to MichelPM

Thank you so much for your answer MichelPM!!

King_Penguin

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Oct 1, 2017 12:47 AM in response to Skwint961

The question was answered, and the answer hasn't changed - if you are not in a text field in order to enter text the keyboard will not show

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How do I force the keyboard to stay open in Safari?