ipad web application: How do I prevent the keyboard from popping up on jquery datepicker

Question

I have a form with an date field with a jquery datepicker attached to it.

When I select the date field the datepicker pops up but then the iPad keyboard slides into

Answer 1

Instead of disabling the input give it a "readonly" property. This is better then disabling it because you can save the form without changing it.

Here is more info about readonly.