title: how to hide the blinking cursor in a text field
body: <p>hello I'm trying a text box expand and collapse option, the text box expand while clicking on it, and collapse while clicking again on it, there is a placeholder in it, while I'm trying to click again in the text box the blinking cursor appears on the placeholder. please help me to hide the blinking cursor in the text field.</p>
  
  <p>The code for this is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;@spring.formTextarea "messageWallMessage.messageText", "rows=1 cols=1 style='font-size:11px;color:#666666;width:650px; min-height:28px; padding:0 0 0px 1px;margin: 6px 0 -6px 10px;' onkeyup='return showLinkedIcon();' onFocus='if(this.value == 'What\'s on your mind?') { this.value='';showLinkedIconPublish();return false;}' onBlur='return publishMsg();' onClick='return showLinkedIconPublish();'spellcheck='false'"/&gt;
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