Materialize Date Picker automatically hide after opening problem on chrome

Question

Materialize datepicker works fine in other browsers and old versions of Google Chrome but it doesn't work properly in new version of Google Chrome

<input type="date" class="datepicker">

JS

$('.datepicker').pickadate({

selectMonths: true, // Creates a dropdown to control month
selectYears: 15 // Creates a dropdown of 15 years to control year
});

Codepen Link for Datepicker

Answer 1

I had the same problem and solved like this way:

$('.datepicker').on('mousedown', function preventClosing(event) {
  event.preventDefault();
});