Ipad + How to prevent the keyboard from popping up on jquery datepicker

Question

I want to disable the keyboard popup from my Ipad so I do something like this, but it\'s not as my wish.

I have a text box:

Answer 1

Have you tried disabling the input field using HTML (so adding disabled="disabled")?

Answer 2

That's how I managed to deal with this problem by making the browser think the user blured the input so it hides the keyboard before it has time to show :

$('blabla')
    .datepicker(
    {
        /* options */
    })
    .on('focus',function()
    {
        $(this).trigger('blur');
    });

Works well for me where many of the other solutions I found didn't !

Answer 3

The right answer tends to be the simplest one.

readonly="true"

Is the solution

Answer 4

There is a option in HTML with let's you do this kind of thing:

readonly="true"

Add this to your input field element. It will sort of "disable" the input field, but still fires events when something is done with it (like clicking on it).

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