iOS keyboard

Superseded: the video kit now does this with the phone-chat part, version 1.2.0, in the parts folder of this repository. Every phone-chat style is a style file that draws the same screen frame by frame from the plan's scenes, with the original sounds, in the kit's browser. This atom stays, unchanged in behaviour, for skills outside the kit until they move; its scripts still run.

render-ios-keyboard

Purpose

Provide a drop-in iOS QWERTY keyboard fragment that pairs with messaging atoms (create-chatgpt-mockup, create-imessage-mockup) when a video needs to show someone typing. Static only: the keyboard sits at the bottom of the screen, the molecule's recorder slides it up/down with transform: translateY(...).

Inputs

const { renderKeyboardHTML, renderKeyboardCSS } = require("./generate");
const html = renderKeyboardHTML({
  suggestions: ['"He"', "Hey", "Heating"], // optional, default ['I', 'The', "I'm"]
  layout: "qwerty-lower", // 'qwerty-lower' | 'qwerty-upper' | 'numbers'
});

The atom returns an HTML fragment (one <div class="ios-keyboard">…</div>) plus the matching CSS. The CSS uses scoped class names so it won't collide with the rest of the page.

Workflow

1. Require the module. const { renderKeyboardHTML, renderKeyboardCSS } = require('./generate'); — no build step, no dependencies beyond Node's fs/path.
2. Pick a layout. renderKeyboardHTML reads opts.layout and looks it up in ROWS: qwerty-lower (default), qwerty-upper, or numbers. An unknown layout silently falls back to qwerty-lower. The molecule decides which state to show; this atom never switches on its own.
3. Pass suggestions. opts.suggestions is an array of up to three strings rendered into the suggestion bar; each value is run through escapeHTML so quotes/angle brackets are safe. Omit it to get the default ['I', 'The', "I'm"].
4. Receive the fragment. The function returns a single root <div class="ios-keyboard" data-layout="…"> containing, in order: the .kb-suggestions bar, three letter rows (row-1 10 keys, row-2 9 keys padded with two 18px spacers, row-3 = shift/#+= modifier + 7 keys + backspace), the row-bottom (123/ABC switch, emoji, wide space, return), and the .kb-system-row globe + mic strip.
5. Inject the CSS once. Call renderKeyboardCSS() (which reads templates/keyboard.css from disk) and place it in a <style> block on the page. The molecule mounts the fragment at the bottom of the stage next to .composer-wrap.
6. Animate externally. The atom emits no JS and never sets a transform. The owning molecule slides the keyboard in/out via transform: translateY(...) on the .ios-keyboard root (the CSS sets will-change: transform for this).
7. (Optional) Preview standalone. render.js wraps the fragment + CSS in a 750×1334 white .stage HTML page and writes it to --out for eyeballing padding/colors.

CLI (for local visual testing)

node render.js --out /tmp/kb.html --suggestions 'I,The,I'\''m'

Produces a standalone HTML page with just the keyboard, useful for tweaking padding/colors.

Output

The molecule injects these into the chatgpt-mockup page next to .composer-wrap.

Files

Quality checks

• Keyboard fits in 518px vertical space on the 750-wide stage (matches iOS QWERTY on a Pro-class iPhone)
• Three suggestion pills are visible above the keys with vertical dividers between them
• Shift, backspace are sized correctly (~10% wider than letter keys)
• Space bar reads as a single wide white pill
• Globe and mic at the very bottom edge of the keyboard, in the system tray strip
• No JS — pure HTML/CSS so the recorder can slide it without re-render

Known limitations

• No key-pop animation. When a key is pressed in the real keyboard, the letter renders larger above the row briefly. v1 skips this.
• Lowercase QWERTY default. Uppercase/numbers variants supported via layout but are visual-only — the molecule decides which to show.
• No emoji panel. The emoji button is rendered but doesn't expand.

Quality Checks

• renderKeyboardHTML() returns a single root element starting with <div class="ios-keyboard" and carrying the matching data-layout attribute (qwerty-lower | qwerty-upper | numbers).
• The fragment contains exactly one .kb-suggestions bar, three letter rows (.row-1, .row-2, .row-3), one .row-bottom, and one .kb-system-row — in that DOM order.
• Suggestion count and text match the suggestions array (default ['I', 'The', "I'm"]); the bar renders one .kb-suggestion span per entry with vertical dividers between adjacent pills.
• qwerty-lower renders lowercase letters and a shift glyph; qwerty-upper renders uppercase letters; numbers renders the digit/symbol rows with the #+= modifier and an ABC switch key instead of 123.
• User-supplied strings are HTML-escaped — passing '<b>' or '"He"' yields <b> / "He", never raw markup.
• renderKeyboardCSS() returns the full contents of templates/keyboard.css, scoped under .ios-keyboard, and the fragment carries no inline style except the two 18px row-2 spacer divs.
• Rendered at 750px stage width, the keyboard occupies roughly 518px of vertical space; shift/backspace/123/emoji/return modifier keys are visibly wider than letter keys; space is one wide white pill; the globe sits bottom-left and mic bottom-right in the system strip.
• The output is pure HTML/CSS — no <script> and no JS event handlers — so a recorder can slide it with a CSS transform without re-rendering.

Failure Modes

• Unknown layout value → ROWS[layout] is undefined, so the renderer silently falls back to qwerty-lower. Symptom: you asked for uppercase or numbers and got lowercase letters. Fix: pass exactly 'qwerty-lower', 'qwerty-upper', or 'numbers'.
• More than three suggestions → every entry still renders as a .kb-suggestion (they flex: 1 1 0), so a long array squashes the pills and breaks the iOS-accurate 3-up layout. Keep suggestions to three or fewer; long strings are clipped with text-overflow: ellipsis.
• CSS not injected → calling renderKeyboardHTML() without also emitting renderKeyboardCSS() produces an unstyled stack of divs (no rounded keys, no gray tray). Always include both on the page.
• templates/keyboard.css missing or unreadable → renderKeyboardCSS() calls fs.readFileSync and will throw ENOENT. Run from a checkout where templates/keyboard.css sits next to generate.js.
• render.js run without --out → the CLI prints the usage line and exits with code 1; nothing is written. Always pass --out <path>.
• Expecting animation or interactivity → there is none. No key-pop, no emoji panel, no caps-lock toggle. The molecule owns slide-up/down and which layout to show; this atom is static by design.