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virtual keyboard popup onfocus of a text field

EDIT: this feat is impossible. since then I have given up. I shall not delete this question, but rather leave it up right here so future users can see a relevant result to their query on google regarding a similar thing
Goal: Either make a textarea bring up the virtual keyboard when focused(with js) OR make a input[type=text] have multiple lines AND bring the virtual keyboard
(I believe answered here but with unsatisfactory results.) (If anyone knows of fully compatible ways to multiple-line-ify an input[type=text] please tell me)
Expected results: virtual keyboard popup when focusing the input OR textarea fields (via javascript with no user trigger).
Real results: caret appears in text field but keyboard remains unseen.
Here's what I'm trying on a textarea:
document.elementFromPoint(document.querySelector("textarea").getBoundingClientRect().x, document.querySelector("textarea").getBoundingClientRect().y).dispatchEvent(click);
Please don't make irrelevant comments about my code organization
#WaisKamal can you show me your code since you said it works?
HTML(no CSS):
<textarea>textarea</textarea>
<input type="text" value="input" />
<script>
//document.elementFromPoint(document.querySelector("textarea").getBoundingClientRect().x, document.querySelector("textarea").getBoundingClientRect().y).dispatchEvent("click");
document.querySelector("input").focus();
document.querySelector("input").click();
</script>

You can use inputmode to determine how a virtual keyboard behaves
<textarea>textarea</textarea>
<input type="text" value="input" inputmode='text'/>
<script>
//document.elementFromPoint(document.querySelector("textarea").getBoundingClientRect().x, document.querySelector("textarea").getBoundingClientRect().y).dispatchEvent("click");
document.querySelector("input").focus();
document.querySelector("input").click();
</script>
Edit
I'm still testing this out, it seem to give some mixed results in the jsfiddle that I'm currently testing right now, sometimes it works and sometimes it does not
*Edit 2 *
It seems to have the same results without specifying the inputmode It does not work the first time the page loads but if I click somewhere on the page, it works every time I click run.
I'm only speculating here but it seems like the keyboard does not pop up without the page receiving some user interaction first, maybe this is intentional for security reasons but I didn't find any docs saying so.
As for you other question you can give a div or other container element contenteditable to have multiple rows / any dimensions you want.
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Here is another questions and some answers to the same problem though a bit old, Show virtual keyboard on mobile phones in javascript
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All in all it does not seem possible so show a virtual keyboard without some user interaction.

Materialize and Bootstrap input fields cache last state and do not respect my chosen state

Take a look at the documentation here:
https://materializecss.com/checkboxes.html
If you check the top checkbox and then reload the page - the top checkbox is still checked and not reset. If you look at the source, the checkbox has no "checked" on it.
How do I get materialize checkboxes to work as I expect? This is a big nuisance for me since a checkbox can appear as checked but not be posted when the form is submitted. Is it my browser? Is it Materialize? Is there a solution?
It works correctly if I press hard refresh - ctrl+f5, but not when I press ctrl+r or refresh button in the browser. The issue is the same with Bootstrap. Normal checkboxes work just as I expect them to.

I made some more research into this and found a solution that fixed it for me:
autocomplete="off" on the input fields.
There seem to be other solutions as well by disabling caching by using "Cache-Control: no-store" header serverside or in meta tag - but this did not work with me so I assume this is an obsolete solution for this kind of issue from a time where browsers respected headers for how to cache html content.
The default is a good thing if it is a form for user input, but I needed it not to be this way because I build an administrative insert/update system and need to have the system to correctly show what is stored rather than reflect and remember what was last clicked.

Javascript: Checkboxes on Forms and output

I run a large Discord server and I'm making a channel for people to post template information about their online groups. To make complying with the template either, I've created a single HTML page which takes the information that goes in the template and regurgitates it into a box on the bottom of the page with some nice bolding and italics where needed already for copy/paste.
Unfortunately, I don't know Javascript so I'm just trying to piece things together and learning as I go. (I'm learning other languages but not this one in school.)
For some reason me trying to format code on here isn't working so I can't paste what I have so I'll just try and explain it.
I'm using oninput="groupNameFunction()" and I'm having the javascript grab the user entered data as they type it via grabbing the ID of the input field then regurgitating it out in the innerHTML of another element. And it works great.
But checkboxes (and probably radio buttons) don't work with oninput (for pretty obvious reasons) but I've been able to get onblur to work to some extent.
The problem is that I'm a beginning coder and I don't quite know or understand how I'll take all the results from all the checkboxes and regurgitate them out into a nice list when there are many IDs and many choices and it doesn't seem sensible to try and write all choices from a single thing into their own function, or how I'll handle the same thing with radio buttons.
I can't find any examples in stuff like W3 tutorials of this being done, it's probably that I just don't know the language to google it correctly.
Could someone point me in the right direction on how to make this work?

here's a little fiddle for you to play with. (press F12 to open developer tools and see console, you'll find logs there)
for radio and checkbox inputs you have change event, it triggers when user check and uncheck the box. bare in mind that you need to have same name="friendly-name" attribute on radio buttons in order them to work as expected.
for the "text" filed use input event.
don't add inline events in HTML, it's bad practice, add them via JS. from JS you can select all your inputs by ther class, name, tag name etc.. and add event handlers (you can find everything in the fiddle).
hope it helps. :D

HTML Input only works at front of input field

I have a web page with an odd behavior on part of it.
On most of the page, the input tags work just the way one would expect.
Here's an input tag I put in to test:
<input name="vanilla1" value="vanilla" />
In one part of the page, I can click on the field to edit it, but only at the front of the field. So, if the input tag had a value of "vanilla", I could click in front of the "v" and start typing or deleting. But it won't let me click between the two "l" characters and start typing.
It's not easy to just post a full working sample, I would have to retype by hand a lot of code.
If I wanted to get that behavior I don't have a clue of how to do it.
Any ideas of what to look for that might cause this?
It's obviously not disabled or readonly because I can edit it.
When I inspect the problem input tags in the IE DOM explorer, they don't look any different from the input tags that work as expected.
There's javascript, html, angularJS and dojo, plus the esri gis api css libraries in the technical mix.
A few more observations:
In IE, when I click on a working input tag that already has a value in it, I get a little X show up on the far right of the input box. If I click on the X the field is blanked out. On my problem input tags, when I click on them, I get the X but clicking the X does not work. So I appear to be accessing the right object.
When I inspect the object, everything looks normal. No javascript events attached, it's not read only or disabled.

Isn't it like covered by another node or something like that?
Did you check it in all browsers or only in IE?
Try to open Chrome DevTools and click the "Select an element in the page to inspect it" (top left corner of the DevTools window, CTRL + Shift + C shortcut on Windows) and hover over that input. See if there's possibly any element that may cover it. If there's - voila! Remove that overlay and you're good to go. If not - I don't have any ideas for now.

focus() method doesn't work while manually focusing with the mouse or tab key does

I try to focus an element of an email field in this webpage, with the following code:
document.querySelector("#user_email").focus();
While manual focusing with either clicking on the field with the mouse or using tab works, the focus() method fails to create the focus, as it seems both from the fact the CSS doesn't change, and the console returns "undefined".
As a newcomer, I ask why?

When you're calling focus() from console, focusing won't happen immediately - you have to go back to the site (close console). When you go back from console to a website by clicking on a website, focusing won't happen. Close console using shortcuts or use setTimeout to delay focusing to give you time to go back to the website.

Digital Ocean's input boxes are focusing fine for me. The undefined basically means that nothing is returned from your expression. For example if you type var a = 123 it'll still say undefined. Also there is no special CSS styling on these input boxes. You might be getting confused with the ones in their control panel.
UPDATE: OP was getting confused with Chromes default input styling.

You should try with document.getElementById('user_email').
document.getElementById('user_email').focus() ;
<input id="user_email">