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Disable autofocus when using a device (mobile?) on which it is problematic? I'm no expert though. Maybe that isn't possible or is more undesirable for some other reason.

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Yes [however] you could using props like <input inputmode='none'> or <input readonly='readonly'> and that prevents the device's virtual keyboard from opening 'onfocus'. however, that's not practical, if you want to type/enter data into it during that session.

Maybe I'm not understanding the objective or the constraints. I thought the goal is to disable autofocus on mobile devices in order to prevent the appearance of the virtual keyboard from unexpectedly disturbing the layout.

In order to achieve this why not use @media to identify a device which uses touch input (I'm sure there are some edge cases, but this seems like a good proxy for a mobile device) and javascript or jquery to disable autofocus?

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