Keyboards for handheld electronic devices

A method comprising: Displaying a plurality of icons on a touch-sensitive display, wherein an icon of at least a subset of the plurality of icons to one or more symbols corresponds; Detecting a contact by a user corresponding to the touch-sensitive display, the respective icon to as; Determining a corresponding symbol from the set of two or more symbols to which the contact further corresponds; and Modifying the displayed corresponding icon to indicate that the contact with the corresponding symbol corresponds.