javascript - how to hide blinking cursor in input text?

Question

I want to make something which would look like a select input but is actually not, here are the steps.

I made an <input type="text">.

I added a background-image, which will show a "select arrow", giving the impression that it's a select box.

I added a default value to this input.

There will be a hidden div which will SlideDown() right under this input when I click on it.

I tried the read only thing so that the value cannot be changed, but the blinking cursor will show up.

If I use disabled, the blinking cursor will not show up, but the .click() or .focus function in jQuery will not work. The drop down menu will not SlideDown().

How can I make it clickable while not showing the blinking cursor?

Here's the code

<div style="padding-top:17px; overflow:hidden;">
    <div style="float:left;">
        <label for="secretquestion">Secret Question</label><br>
        <input type="text" class="inputselect" id="secretquestion" name="secretquestion" value="Choose a Secret Question" tabindex=10 /><br>
        <div class="selectoptions" id="secretquestionoptions">
            <b>test</b>
        </div> 
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.selectoptions
{
    display: none;
    background-color: white;  
    color: rgb(46,97,158); 
    width: 250px; 
    margin:auto; 
    border-style: solid; 
    border-width:1px; 
    border-color: rgb(46,97,158);  
    font-size: 14px; 
    text-align: center; 
}

.inputselect {
    color: white;  
    cursor: pointer;  
    background-image: url('inputselect.png');
    padding-top: 5px; 
    padding-bottom: 5px;   
    padding-left:10px; 
    padding-right:-10px;
    width:240px; 
    border-style: solid; 
    border-color: rgb(46,97,158); 
    border-width: 1px;
} 
.inputselect:hover {
    outline:none;      
    color:aqua; 
    cursor: pointer; 
    background-image: url('inputselecthover.png');
}
.inputselect:focus {
    outline:none;      
    color:aqua; 
    cursor: pointer; 
    background-image: url('inputselecthover.png');
}

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9333044/how-to-hide-blinking-cursor-in-input-text

Answer 1

The color of the cursor matches the color of the text.

<input type="text" style="color: transparent">

If you actually want to show text in the input box (my, some people are needy), you can use a text shadow.

<style>
    body, div, input {
       color: #afa;
       text-shadow: 0px 0px 1px #fff;
    }
<style>

(tested Firefox and Safari).