# \[Solved\] How can I avoid the keyboard overlaying my inputs or visually shifting components?
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/solved-how-can-i-avoid-the-keyboard-overlaying-my-inputs-or-visually-shifting-components/1974560
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [July 25, 2022, 6:58am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/solved-how-can-i-avoid-the-keyboard-overlaying-my-inputs-or-visually-shifting-components/1974560 "2022-07-25T06:58:10Z")
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### Author:  [@versatile](https://community.thunkable.com/u/versatile)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2022, 6:58am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/solved-how-can-i-avoid-the-keyboard-overlaying-my-inputs-or-visually-shifting-components/1974560/1 "2022-07-25T06:58:10Z")
How do I avoid this when typing
And this is it later turns out to be
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2022, 8:29am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/solved-how-can-i-avoid-the-keyboard-overlaying-my-inputs-or-visually-shifting-components/1974560/2 "2022-07-25T08:29:14Z")
Set the screen to `scrollable`.
The components are crunched together to make space for the keyboard, if the screen is scrollable then the components will move up making space for the keyboard.
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### Author:  [@versatile](https://community.thunkable.com/u/versatile)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/solved-how-can-i-avoid-the-keyboard-overlaying-my-inputs-or-visually-shifting-components/1974560/3 "2022-07-25T20:16:05Z")
Thanks lemme try this
This is what I got
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/solved-how-can-i-avoid-the-keyboard-overlaying-my-inputs-or-visually-shifting-components/1974560/4 "2022-07-25T20:18:12Z")
Place your components into a group component or several group component to arrange them in the screen.
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### Author:  [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2022, 9:10am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/solved-how-can-i-avoid-the-keyboard-overlaying-my-inputs-or-visually-shifting-components/1974560/5 "2022-07-26T09:10:52Z")
@versatile, @jared has shared a sample app related to this here:
> [@Fun Share: 1 way to avoid the keyboard covering your text input](https://community.thunkable.com/t/fun-share-1-way-to-avoid-the-keyboard-covering-your-text-input/1968546):
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> Question that Prompted this Tutorial: A common ask is how to avoid covering a text input located lower on a screen when the keyboard appears. Goal: Add a popup modal that allows users to enter text which won’t be covered by the device keyboard Explanation: There are many device dimensions and it can be hard to predict that your input wont necessarily be covered by a advice keyboard. In that case, you can use this method to allow your users to easil…
Is this relevant to the layout changes you’re seeing?
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2022, 9:10am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/solved-how-can-i-avoid-the-keyboard-overlaying-my-inputs-or-visually-shifting-components/1974560/6 "2022-10-24T09:10:58Z")
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