HTML 5 Input type='date' disable keyboard input

Question

I am working on a Chrome Packaged App so my code should only work in Chrome.

I have the following input

<input type="date" />

https://jsfiddle.net/jhbo4q2k/

On Chrome this automatically adds a DatePicker. I would like to only keep this Datepicker and disable the input by keyboard.

Is this possible?

EDIT:

The accepted answer works. Just be wary of this

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tut_migration_to_manifest_v2#inline_scripts

You cant use inline scripts in a packaged app.

Answer 1

You can use onkeydown and prevent user from entering the value.

<input type="date" onkeydown="return false" />

Answer 2

For ReactJS above solutions don't work

I had to do:

<input type="date" onKeyDown={(e) => e.preventDefault()} .... />

Answer 3

Hi you can prevent keyboard popup by using onfocus="blur()". Since when the element has the focus we will remove the focus out of it(native keyboards won't show) however with onclick we can continue with our operations.

 <input type="date" class="form-control"  onfocus="blur()" onclick="dosomework()" name="some-name" id="some-id" >
<script>

function dosomework(){
 alert('hi');
 }

<script>