Property keyboardShouldPersistTaps={true} not working in <Modal /> view

[Onno Faber]

Issue Description

Given a in a , and the TextInput being active (keyboard is shown), I can't get any Touchable... element to respond to onPress before dismissing the keyboard.

Steps to Reproduce / Code Snippets

See the example code below. I would expect the TouchableOpacity (a yellow square) to popup an Alert while the TextInput is active and the keyboard is shown. Instead, I have to tap to dismiss the keyboard first.

The property keyboardShouldPersistTaps={true} does the trick in another view, but not inside of a

<Modal
  animationType={"slide"}
  transparent={false}
  visible={this.props.visible} >
  <ScrollView
    keyboardDismissMode="on-drag"
    keyboardShouldPersistTaps={true} >
    <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => alert(1)} style={{ backgroundColor: 'yellow', width: 200, height: 200, }} />
    <TextInput style={{
      height: 40,
      backgroundColor: 'red',
    }} />
  </ScrollView>
</Modal>

Additional Information

• React Native version: 0.34
• Platform(s): iOS
• Operating System: macOS

[Ilya Iuyeu]

+1, 0.35.0-rc.0, iOS + macOS

[Mang-Git Ng]

Same problem here, using a list view
0.36 iOS

[Han Lynn]

+1 0.36 on iOS

[Roman Zabila]

Have the same issue on iOS.
RN 0.32.1

[roysG]

Same issue : react native - 0.37

[David Colin]

Same problem RN 0.39, any idea?

[chapati]

confirmed, same issue. keyboardShouldPersisTaps has no effect on modals.
has anyone found a workaround for this by any chance?

[Peter Razvan Tudosa]

I lost 2 hours because of this bug.

[Kenneth]

I can confirm this is not working :/ using RN 0.41.1

[Anh Trinh]

In my case, I have a ScrollView as the parent of Modal. Setting keyboardShouldPersistTaps on that ScrollView fix the issue inside Modal.

[David Xiao]

putting the scrollview on the outside of my Modal did not solve issue for me.

[Des Preston]

+1

[Andrew]

Has anyone found a solution for this?

[Mahesh Karthu]

👍 Same issues

[Des Preston]

what fixed it for me is to make sure that all nested scrollviews have this property set.

e.g:

<ScrollView><ScrollView keyboardShouldPersistTaps></ScrollView></ScrollView>

This won't work because the parent ScrollView does not have this property set.

[@greweb]

the fix for me was that I had to set keyboardShouldPersistTaps on ALL scrollview ancestors of my Modal...
otherwise, if any ScrollView in your parent tree do the default keyboardShouldPersistTaps="none", the keyboard will be dismissed (in my case I want to prevent a dismiss).

anyway, whatever what you want to solve (dismiss/not dismiss/respond to onPress) – you will have to be aware that the <Modal> cares about its (scrollview) parent stack, I assumed it would be like if rendered on top level, but no. rendering your modal component from root OR within a complex stack of scrollview, have different behavior. I think that's a valid concern for Modal to fix that, at least if not, it should be documented.

[Mark Robinson]

@despreston & @gre that solved it for me.

Once my both my parent and child FlatList had the keyboardShouldPersistTaps prop set it worked a treat

[Thiện]

I just use TouchableHighlight instead of TouchableOpacity and the onPress works

          <ScrollView
            keyboardShouldPersistTaps='always'
            style={styles.listItem}>
            {items.map((item, index) => this._renderTouchableItem(item, index))}
          </ScrollView>

  _renderTouchableItem = (item, index) => {
    return (
      <TouchableHighlight
        key={index}
        underlayColor='transparent'
        onPress={() => this.props.onTouchableItemSelected(this, index)}
      >
        <Text value={item.label} style={{ padding: 16, paddingLeft: 24 }} />
      </TouchableHighlight>
    )
  }

[Héctor Ramos]

Hi there! This issue is being closed because it has been inactive for a while. Maybe the issue has been fixed in a recent release, or perhaps it is not affecting a lot of people. Either way, we're automatically closing issues after a period of inactivity. Please do not take it personally!

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[Markus Griebling]

I know this is closed. However, I just struggled with this for a few hours as well. Thanks to the comments read here; I found a solution that worked in my situation. I didn't even know that Flatlist would accept the keyboardShouldPersistTaps='always' parameter. I ended up having no extra ScrollViews, simply adding that parameter to Flatlist worked out great.

  <FlatList
    keyboardShouldPersistTaps='always'
    data={this.props.itemList}
    extraData={this.props}
    renderItem={this.renderCardItem}
    ItemSeparatorComponent={this.itemSeparator}
  />

Cheers
Using RN .51 BTW

[Abhishek Ghosh]

The only solution I could find is having keyboardShouldPersistTaps on all ScrollViews in the component stack for the screen.

Credits: @despreston, @gre