--- title: replyKeyboardForceReply description: Force the user to send a reply image: https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/favicons/android-chrome-256x256.png --- # Constructor: replyKeyboardForceReply [Back to constructors index](index.md) Force the user to send a reply ### Attributes: | Name | Type | Required | Description | |----------|---------------|----------|-------------| |single\_use|[Bool](../types/Bool.md) | Optional|Requests clients to hide the keyboard as soon as it's been used. The keyboard will still be available, but clients will automatically display the usual letter-keyboard in the chat – the user can press a special button in the input field to see the custom keyboard again.| |selective|[Bool](../types/Bool.md) | Optional|Use this parameter if you want to show the keyboard to specific users only. Targets: 1) users that are @mentioned in the text of the Message object; 2) if the bot's message is a reply (has reply\_to\_message\_id), sender of the original message.
Example: A user requests to change the bot‘s language, bot replies to the request with a keyboard to select the new language. Other users in the group don’t see the keyboard.| ### Type: [ReplyMarkup](../types/ReplyMarkup.md) ### Example: ```php $replyKeyboardForceReply = ['_' => 'replyKeyboardForceReply', 'single_use' => Bool, 'selective' => Bool]; ``` Or, if you're into Lua: ```lua replyKeyboardForceReply={_='replyKeyboardForceReply', single_use=Bool, selective=Bool} ```