I think the most easiest way to do is by using Bootstrap's class ".text-uppercase"
<input type="text" class="text-uppercase" />
try:
$('#search input.keywords').bind('change', function(){
//this.value.toUpperCase();
//EDIT: As Mike Samuel suggested, this will be more appropriate for the job
this.value = this.value.toLocaleUpperCase();
} );
This answer has a problem:
style="text-transform: uppercase"
it also converts the place holder word to upper case which is inconvenient
placeholder="first name"
when rendering the input, it writes "first name" placeholder as uppercase
FIRST NAME
so i wrote something better:
onkeypress="this.value = this.value + event.key.toUpperCase(); return false;"
it works good!, but it has some side effects if your javascript code is complex,
hope it helps somebody to give him/her an idea to develop a better solution.