NOTE: I recommend using the Cordova Keyboard Plugin instead of this one. The Cordova Keyboard Plugin has better support for resizing and works with Cordova 3.2+.
The keyboard in an iOS web view has an InputAccessoryView with Previous, Next and Done buttons. This plugin allows the toolbar to be hidden.
Assuming you're running Cordova 2.9+ and using the command line interface
$ cd /path/to/project
$ cordova plugin add https://github.com/don/KeyboardToolbarRemover
The plugin creates a global variable called toolbar when it is installed.
To disable the toolbar
toolbar.hide()
To re-enable the toolbar
toolbar.show()
If you see a bar above the keyboard with iOS7, try adding height=device-height to the viewport meta tag. See Issue 9 for more details.
The original code to hide the toolbar is based on the Josh Garnham's code in a blog post. (Scroll down to the Bonus Code section.)
Steve Smith's iOS 7 fix was influenced by a stack overflow post.
Michael Scholz and Shinichi Hosokawa provided patches for Cordova 3.0 compatibility.
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