Mobile phone issue with "Find Events"

[Stephen Gasser]

I’m seeing an expected albeit unfortunate behavior with the Find Events -> Events In section of the calendar on mobile phones. Because it’s a traditional text input phones are automatically showing the keyboard when a user taps on the field. This is a bit undesired since the calendar also provides a date picker pop up. Any thoughts on how to prevent the keyboard from triggering?

[Cliff]

Hi, Stephen. Thanks for the helpful screenshot.

I was able to reproduce this on my own iOS device, but I’m not sure it’s something we’d consider “fixing” because it actually is a text field. The datepicker makes it significantly easier to insert a valid date (text) format, and it works after tapping “Done” to dismiss the keyboard.

I didn’t test on Android, but this article might be helpful if you want to customize how this text field works on your own site: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15135784/how-to-disable-keyboard-appearing-when-hitting-on-a-text-field-ios (third-party, not guaranteed or supported by us)

To implement something like that, you might need to follow our Themer’s Guide to customize /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/src/views/modules/bar.php

Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions on this topic.

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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