How to partition input field to appear as separate input fields on screen?

You don’t have to keep four separate fields.

First, you should adjust the character spacing, and then adjust the border style of bottom.

#partitioned {
  padding-left: 15px;
  letter-spacing: 42px;
  border: 0;
  background-image: linear-gradient(to left, black 70%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0%);
  background-position: bottom;
  background-size: 50px 1px;
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
  background-position-x: 35px;
  width: 220px;
  outline : none;
}

<input id="partitioned" type="text" maxlength="4" />

–EDIT to fix 5 underlines for 4 character ugliness–

var obj = document.getElementById('partitioned');
obj.addEventListener('keydown', stopCarret); 
obj.addEventListener('keyup', stopCarret); 

function stopCarret() {
    if (obj.value.length > 3){
        setCaretPosition(obj, 3);
    }
}

function setCaretPosition(elem, caretPos) {
    if(elem != null) {
        if(elem.createTextRange) {
            var range = elem.createTextRange();
            range.move('character', caretPos);
            range.select();
        }
        else {
            if(elem.selectionStart) {
                elem.focus();
                elem.setSelectionRange(caretPos, caretPos);
            }
            else
                elem.focus();
        }
    }
}

#partitioned {
  padding-left: 15px;
  letter-spacing: 42px;
  border: 0;
  background-image: linear-gradient(to left, black 70%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0%);
  background-position: bottom;
  background-size: 50px 1px;
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
  background-position-x: 35px;
  width: 220px;
  min-width: 220px;
}

#divInner{
  left: 0;
  position: sticky;
}

#divOuter{
  width: 190px; 
  overflow: hidden;
}

<div id="divOuter">
    <div id="divInner">
        <input id="partitioned" type="text" maxlength="4" />
    </div>
</div>

I think this can be a starting point.

Hope this will help…

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