I have a date field on a PHP website and I'm using jQuery Mobile for mobile site.

While browsing the site on a mobile browser, (eg firefox mobile on android), on clicking on the date text input, the calendar dialog comes up, but the soft keyboard also comes up on my android (Soft keypad comes up whenever one focuses on a input field)
Is there a way, I can force hide the soft keyboard ? Is there a generic javascript based trick to force hide the soft keypad (that works on all mobile devices like iphone, android etc ?

I'm using the jQuery Mobile datepicker from [here](http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0a4.1/experiments/ui-datepicker/)
TIA