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I'm writing a web app for the iPad ( not a regular App Store app - it's written using HTML, CSS and JavaScript). Since the keyboard fills up a huge part of the screen, it would make sense to change the app's layout to fit the remaining space when the keyboard is shown. However, I have found no way ...

This is a more generic reformulation of this question (with the elimination of the Rails specific parts) 13 Answers ...