Keep the keyboard up and Focus on text field after submit on Angular2

[borys_duda]

I’m creating an app with a chat room for iOS and when I send a new message it blurs the input field and the keyboard slides down. I already tried all solutions from following article, but not work.

Keep the keyboard up and Focus on text field after submit

I’m creating an app with a chat room and when I submit a new message it blurs the input field and the keyboard slides down. What would be a good way to keep the focus on the field and keep the keyboard up? I started out with the autofocus html tag and that makes the input field start autofocused in the browser but not in the emulator or device. Then I tried ng-focus="true" and ng-focus="contentFocus" and set it true before and as a callback to the POST call and still no dice.

Is there any solution to make it work properly? Thanks

[malma67]

It does not yet seem possible to implement a simple chat page in Ionic2 where the keyboard stays up in between messages.

Im surprised as the chat functionality is a basic thing used by many apps.

[nicopeeters]

Did you manage to find a solution for this? I’m also creating a chat app and struggling with this.

[collinsushigmailcom]

use this simple combination;

<ion-button (mousedown)="$event.preventDefault(); sendTheMessage()">