How to prevent scrolling after hiding keyboard in ios7 html5 webapp - ios

I have a problem with html5 app in ios7. It's easier to explain it at the screenshots:
At the start everything is fine - https://www.dropbox.com/s/x03b2blcqjptvpi/1.jpeg?dl=0
When I touch text input it's still ok (page scrolls down to the input)
After blur (when keyboard is hiding) the screen is scrolling back, but over 20px too much and it looks like this - https://www.dropbox.com/s/qpbbd1903tfb4qt/3.jpeg?dl=0
I've tried everything (including all possibilities of apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style meta tag) and it's still not working. I wonder why ios7 scrolls my app under status bar, even if at the start of the app it's ok. Does anyone have any idea?

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