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

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 !