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Background: I have users who commonly access a site using Windows tablets. The tablets do not have external keyboards connected and the web page is accessed using a bookmark to utilize the browsers web-app/kiosk mode. Their browser of choice is Chrome.

Issue: Windows Surface's on-screen keyboard is hidden when focusing on a password input in the Chrome or IE11 browser.

<input type="password" />

The on-screen keyboard will display as expected when focusing on a regular text input.

Browser does not need to be in the bookmarked web-app/kiosk mode to reproduce.

This issue does not occur when using the Edge browser.

Demo to reproduce: https://codepen.io/MacArmstrong/pen/QxvOKx

Mac
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  • we've had this issue for over a month and ended up creating our own password field from a regular input text field. Basically replace the characters with `*` on the fly, while appending the input characters to a string variable. Strange we're not hearing much about this bug - it started after a recent Windows keyboard update. – Martin Konecny Jul 16 '18 at 19:42
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    FYI, here is a link to the Chrome issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=843932&can=2&start=0&num=100&q=touch%20keyboard%20windows&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Stars%20ReleaseBlock%20Component%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified%20Opened&groupby=&sort= – Martin Konecny Jul 16 '18 at 20:07

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