Element should not be required to be an input

I'm currently using pickatime and needed to add a caret to the element. It also needed to behave as a button, so I did not want to use an input field. I also have experienced issues with the readonly attribute in ie as well as finding the ability to still edit a readonly field in modern browsers.

I got this working fine, but in ie8 and 9, the autofocus breaks the browser with "Object doesn't support this action." error on line 93 "ELEMENT.autofocus..."