Blackberry Playbook WebWorks How to make a textfield open a different virtual keyboard?

Question

I'm developing a WebWorks application for the Blackberry Playbook. This page in their documentation says

You can display a specific type of virtual keyboard, depending on the type of input that is required. In addition to the default keyboard, you can choose from a selection of keyboards, such as a keyboard designed for typing in an email or a keyboard designed for typing in a browser.

https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/html5/documentation/ww_best_practices/ui_components_tablet_microsites_1877108_11.html

However, I can't find any documentation on how to actually DO that. I have some fields for entering an email address, so I'd like to give the user an email focused keyboard.

This is a WebWorks app, not Flash. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Those special keyboard layouts are determined the type attribute of HTML5 <input> tags. Here are some of the "special" types defined in the HTML5 specification:

• tel
• url
• email
• number

When selected, the respective keyboard layout will appear for you.

Blackberry has also their own document where they list all possible <input> types available under WebWorks.