HTML Mobile -forcing the soft keyboard to hide

Question

I am developing the front end site for a coupon company, and I have a page where the user only needs to input phone number and $$ spent. We came up with a fun on-screen keyb

Answer 1

For further readers/searchers:

As Rene Pot points out on this topic,

By adding the attribute readonly (or readonly="readonly") to the input field you should prevent anyone typing anything in it, but still be able to launch a click event on it.

With this method, you can avoid popping up the "soft" Keyboard and still launch click events / fill the input by any on-screen keyboard.

This solution also works fine with date-time-pickers which generally already implement controls.