# Make share input field readonly

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-share-input-field-readonly/18973>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Août 17, 2014, 11:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-share-input-field-readonly/18973 "2014-08-17T23:10:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [Septembre 8, 2014, 8:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-share-input-field-readonly/18973/7 "2014-09-08T08:08:20Z")

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iPad is a desktop browser to us. Non-starter. And since iPhone will have the same problem (I don’t have an iPhone to test with), means it doesn’t really work in either mobile or desktop scenarios.

This is surprisingly difficult for the reasons I documented:

1. Avoiding keyboard pop using HTML is really hard. (That’s the main thing I liked about this)

2. Copying to clipboard, even in HTML5 ultra-bleeding-2013 is not really possible.

3. Readonly field has seriously erratic behaviors on Mobile Safari.

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