Abstract: In a keyboard comprising a housing including lower and upper housing parts wherein a metal plate, a switch foil set and a switch pad with resilient switch domes are disposed in the lower housing part and the upper housing part has keyboard keys slidably supported therein so as to be disposed on, and supported by said switch domes, the switch pad has openings formed therein between the switch domes such that the switch pad comprises a net-like structure in which the switch domes are interconnected by narrow webs and a plate-like stabilization element is disposed on the switch pad with openings at the locations of the switch domes wherein the switch domes are received in their proper positions below the respective switch domes.