Question

This is hard to explain. I had seen a plugin that allowed the user to type into a text field that was hidden. All you noticed was a cursor and the text being typed. If you’ve seen the new MySpace video. You can see what I’m talking about in there. Sorry this wasn’t better explained.

Answer 1

I found the answer for this and it wasn’t by using a Jquery plugin, something I thought would have been created.

Setting background to transparent is what did the trick. I also needed the user to be able to type anywhere on the screen and the text show up in the text area. This was accomplished with the JS below.

$( document ).on( 'keydown', function( ev ) {
var nodeName = ev.target.nodeName;
if ( 'INPUT' == nodeName || 'TEXTAREA' == nodeName ) {
    return;
}
$( '#text' ).val( '' ).trigger( 'focus' );
} );