Keep the keyboard open for an HTML chat program on Android?
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I'm building an HTML5 chat program which has an input field and submit button at the bottom of the page.

On Chrome for Android, when the user taps the field, the soft keyboard slides up, and the user can enter a message. Once the user taps "Go", however, the keyboard disappears, and then they have to click the field again to bring the keyboard up. This is annoying.

Is there a way to force the soft keyboard to stay open?

If it helps, I'm using jQuery to bind to the `submit` event for the form.