Disabling iPhone keyboard for textarea in web application

Question

So I have multiple textareas on my page that are editable depending on a users status. The problem is that even when a user clicks on a textarea that they are not allowed to edit, the keyboard comes up on mobile safari. The user can't actually edit the textarea, but it's really annoying/looks bad. I was thinking of maybe making it disabled but without actually changing it's look. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Are you using TextView or TextField? For a TextView you can set Editable to NO to prevent the keyboard being popped up.

For TextField I guess you can set userInteractionEnabled to NO. Haven't tried this before though.