How do I maintain keyboard display when switching pages or fields?

[Android Central Question]

Hello, using Android 4.1.2 on some Symbol TC55s at work and the different phones act differently.
We interact with our Warehouse Management System through the Chrome browser, not an app. On some phones when you switch the keyboard to numbers, fill the field, and then go to a new field on the same page (or a new page) it will keep the keyboard on the number input. This is preferred.
On other phones, it will revert back to letter input. And on some phones it will close the keyboard until you tap the field again (even though the cursor is already in the field).
I'm looking for whatever settings will control this behavior so I can have consistency across our devices.

 

[Rukbat]

No settings, if you're using Chrome, you'd have to rewrite Chrome. (And possibly Android, and/or Linux.)


On second thought, autofill could be causing that - disable it.

 

[medievalwarehouse]

Thanks for the reply Rukbat.
I was the question asker but had not created an account yet. We tried disabling autofill with no luck.
Regarding your other statement, if all the devices are the same version, all running the same versions of Android and Chrome and having different outcomes with the same inputs, I doubt it would be something coded in the app itself. It feels like a setting, but it's not a setting I've ever heard of apparently.