Question

If I were writing a native app I would try the solution given here which says:

"Try to implement the following method in text view's delegate:"

- (BOOL)textViewShouldBeginEditing:(UITextView *)textView{
    return NO;
}

Unfortunately I need to use phonegap, so I don’t have a text view to manipulate. It would be great if I could permanently suppress the keyboard in this app. We’ve got some custom on screen keyboard that people are supposed to use instead. So, any idea how to disable the popup keyboard completely?

Answer 1

Just put a transparent div over the input field, so the the click will be on that div and not on the input field. Now you can activate your own keyboard by click and fill in the characters with javascript.

• Update:

The following solution works:

The keyboard is directly linked to the focus on the input field. when you use readonly=”true”, you can get the click event and then you should be able to chamge the value. in jQuery something like this: $(‘myinputfield’).click(function(){$(this).val(newinput);});