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How to hide soft keyboard and keep input on focus

I have a page for a barcode scanner(honeywell ct50) running Android 4.4.4,
The soft keyboard pops up automatically as input textbox is on focus.
Is there any solution to hide it?
I have read suggestions, mostly making the input losing focus or being readonly,
but I need to keep the focus on the input to read the barcode.
I tried
1. to execute event.preventDefault() in onfocus event, it doesn't work.
2. to get the barcode on document.keypress(), the solution in the post as below, but nothing got from my scanner.
javascript - hide mobile default keyboard but keep input field active
Any ideas are welcome.

Old topic but this is the solution which works at least for android 6 and 7:
yourInput = document.getElementById('yourInputElement');
yourInput.readOnly = true;
yourInput.focus();
setTimeout(function(){document.getElementById('yourInputElement').readOnly = false;}, 50);
You put your input in readOnly = true before the focus.
The keyboard will not appear.
And you put back the input in readOnly = false but not immediately.
So you can use your scanner without having the keyboard popping up.

For me what worked at some point was setting the ion-input type="text" to readonly, but now it is not working when setting that property. Maybe give it a try.

javascript select only portion of string on input focus

I have form with lot's of date input fields. I would only like to select firs two characters of date (e.g. day portion of the date only) when focusing on a input field. I have accomplished this with this code:
$(".date").focus(function() {
this.setSelectionRange(0, 2);
});
The problem is this only works if I focus on input field with a mouse click. But if moving between input fields with TABULAR key on keyboard then the entire text in input field is selected. Can this be controlled via JavaScript as well?
Here is also JSFiddle which demonstrates above.

It sounds like the default handler is being run after yours.
Prevent this by stopping the browser's default handler by running:
$(".date").focus(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
this.setSelectionRange(0, 2);
});

i posted here an answer, which is related to what you want , check it out: how-to-select-particular-text-in-textbox

How to disable Sharepoint textbox?

I am trying to disable a textbox in SharePoint WSS3 and force a specific value (given by another JavaScript function) but I can't seem to find the right way of doing it. I have come across different issues. Let's say I have a normal single line text value named prova and another one named Description. Description is required, prova is not.
First Issue: If the field IS required, even if there is something in the textbox, SharePoint says otherwise and does not allow me to insert the entry.
$(document).ready(function(){
//var value = someFunction(...);
var value = "test";
$("input[title='Description']").attr("disabled", "disabled");
$("input[title='Description']").val(value);
});
Second Issue: If the field IS NOT required SharePoint doesn't say anything but it inserts a blank value instead of the one given.
$(document).ready(function(){
//var value = someFunction(...);
var value = "test";
$("input[title='prova']").attr("disabled", "disabled");
$("input[title='prova']").val(value);
});
I have a feeling that tells me that there is some kind of SharePoint JavaScript function somewhere that listens for KeyUp or something. I have really no idea what to do now...
EDIT: It looks like the problem is related to disabling the textbox, if I comment the line where I disable the textbox it works in both scenarios. Maybe if I catch the insert request I can re-enable the textbox before SharePoint do the actual post. No idea how to do it though...

Your problem really is related to disabling the textbox first. By default disabled textboxes are not contained in the POST request in IE.
See this post: Disabled form inputs do not appear in the request or this one: how to save data by disabled text box?
What you actually want to do is set the readonly attribute of the field, not disable it (readonly="readonly"). The problem with that is that the readonly state sometimes looks the same as the default state, so you also have to add some CSS to make it look greyed out.

Detecting and clearing a form field in Chrome

I ran into a problem the other day when building a form.
The input box has a type "number".
In Chrome the input field displays up/down arrows. I could not detect change when either the up or down buttons were clicked, so I used CSS to remove the buttons. That was pretty simple, but it did not resolve all of my problems.
I do some validation on the field (using keyup). If I enter a number in the field it works fine, but if I enter a letter into the field I cannot detect it.
Using .val() works fine in FF and IE to get the field's value (number or letter), but in Chrome, not so much.
If there is a letter in the field I cannot find a way to clear the field either. Using .val('') simply moves the cursor to the left.
As I said, this problem is specific to using Chrome. For all other browsers my code works fine.
Any suggestions on code that can be used to resolve this problem?

The issue all revolves around the input being of type "number".
The HTML5 draft defines:
The value sanitization algorithm is as follows: If the value of the element is not a valid floating point number, then set it to the empty string instead.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#number-state
Trying to do a .val() to retrieve a type=number input that has a non-number in it will only return the empty string. It looks like Chrome's implementation of this is to set the value of the field to empty string before any value can actually be retrieved.
As far as resetting the field using .val('') and keyup not being recognized, this code seems to work http://jsfiddle.net/hVVSA/2/
JS
var $input = $('input').keyup(function(){
console.log("here");
});
$('#clearfield').click(function(){
console.log('val was '+$input.val());
$input.val('');
});
HTML
<input type="number" />
<button id="clearfield">clear</button>

Allow Copy/Paste in a disabled input text box in Firefox browsers

I have a input text box disabled:
<input type="text" name="name" disabled="disabled" />
In IE and in Chrome you can copy and paste the value populated in that input field but in Firefox you cannot.
Firefox does not allow clipboard manipulation through JavaScript for valid security concerns.
Any suggestion? Is there a work around this?

readonly="readonly" will do the job
it should be supported by the major browsers

I don't like using readonly="readonly", ever. It leaves the field focusable and reachable via tab keypress and, if, god forbid, the user hits the backspace key while the read-only field is focused, then most browsers treat it like the user hit the 'back' button and bring up the previously viewed page. Not what you want to see happen when you're filling out a large form, especially if you are using some archaic browser that doesn't preserve the form data when you hit the 'next' button to return to it. Also very, very bad when using some single-page web application, where 'back' takes you to a whole other world, and 'next' doesn't even restore your form, much less its data.
I've worked around this by rendering DIVs instead of input fields when I need the field disabled (or PRE instead of a textarea). Not always easy to do dynamically but I've managed to make fairly short work of it with AngularJS templates.
If you have time, head over to the Mozilla Bugzilla and ask them to fix it.

tl;dr: Support for selecting and copying text in a disabled field is unreliable; use the readonly attribute or a non-input element, such as a <span> instead, if this functionality is necessary. Use JavaScript to modify the behavior of the readonly input to prevent unwanted behavior such as going back a page when someone hits the backspace key while the readonly input has focus.
*UPDATE: 2018.12.24
The spec has changed since this answer was originally posted (thanks to Wrightboy for pointing this out); it now includes the following caveat with regards to disabled fields:
Any other behavior related to user interaction with disabled controls, such as whether text can be selected or copied, is not defined in this standard.
— https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#the-readonly-attribute
Disabled fields still cannot receive focus nor click events.
Because the standard does not define whether or not text within disabled controls can be selected or copied and because at least one major browser doesn't support that functionality, it's probably best to avoid relying on that behavior.
Original Answer
This is the expected behavior for a disabled field (as of the original date of this answer). IE and Chrome are being generous, but Firefox is behaving appropriately.
If you want to prevent the user from changing the value of the field, but you still want them to be able to read it, and/or copy it's value, then you should use the readonly attribute. This will allow them to set focus to the element (necessary for copying), and also access the field via the tab button.
If you are concerned about a user accidentally hitting the backspace button inside the readonly field and causing the browser to navigate back a page, you can use the following code to prevent that behavior:
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
var inputs = document.querySelectorAll('[readonly]');
for(var i=0; i < inputs.length; i++){
inputs[i].addEventListener('keydown', function(e){
var key = e.which || e.keyCode || 0;
if(key === 8){
e.preventDefault();
}
})
}
});
<input value="Hello World" readonly=readonly />

As quick answer, one can have another not disabled element to enable + copy/paste + redisable your input text, like this:
$('#btnCopy').click(function(){
$('#txtInputDisabled').removeAttr('disabled');
$('#txtInputDisabled').select();
document.execCommand("copy");
$('#txtInputDisabled').attr('disabled','disabled');
});
You can se my complete response to this post

Refer to my post to the same question. It does the following:
Makes the textbox just like readonly without using the readonly attribute on the input tag, but will honor tab index and set focus
Supports all clipboard functions win and mac with mouse or keyboard
Allows undo, redo and select all
Restrict HTML input to only allow paste

You can accomplish this in share point by utilizing the contenteditable attribute as follows with jquery.
$("#fieldID").attr("contenteditable", "false");
This will allow the user to highlight the text and copy it but will not allow them to enter anything in the field.