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Lowercase m,k,- and some other keyboard keys stop working in the <input> element after opening and touching Google Maps - All platforms #415
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[-]Lowercase m,k,- and some other keyboard keys stop working in the <input> element after opening and touching Google Maps[/-][+]Lowercase m,k,- and some other keyboard keys stop working in the <input> element after opening and touching Google Maps - All platforms[/+]on Feb 21, 2018 Here is more information about the same problem in a new Stackoverflow entry: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48893262/google-maps-does-not-relinquish-key-presses-to-input-in-shadow-dom
Hello @rbjarnason, same issue here..
and thank u for ur reference, it's very helpful for me, i've fixed my issue like this jsFiddleThis is a bug in the underlying Maps API when in Shadow DOM: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/73644075
The only workaround I've found is to disable keyboard
keyboardShortcuts: falseand re-implement them.
After you open and touch a Google Maps using this components lowercase m,k,- and some other keys stop working in web input forms after opening and touching Google Maps.
Steps to reproduce:
If you have the Google Maps form in the background you will actually see it move when use the keys but nothing comes into the input field.
This is a new problem since the new release of Google Maps on all platforms we have tested.