How do you disable the datepicker in Microsoft Edge?

Question

I have several inputs with type=\"date\" and want to disable the default date picker in Microsoft Edge since I\'m using jQuery\'s datepicker. How do I disable this using CSS or

Answer 1

As with Cyptic I had to change the type to text

And then in JQuery

$("input.datepicker:text").datepicker({
    showOn: "both",
    dateFormat: "dd MM yy",
    changeMonth: true,
    changeYear: true
});