Textarea problem ??

Anon

Hello all,
Can anybody tell me how to Disable the contents of a text box. I have used "readonly" and "Disabled=true" but these are working only in internet explorer what about the Netscape ?? How can i disable the "textbox" in Netscape ??

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You probably can't.

Why would you want to do this?

Anon

I can get it to work in Netscape 6. And according to the specs, this code should work in NS 3.0+

Try this as a test:

<BODY>

<FORM ACTION="test.cgi">
<TEXTAREA NAME="Text1" ROWS="4" COLS="18" DISABLED="TRUE">Hello World!</TEXTAREA>
</FORM>

</BODY>

I don't have an older version of NS currently to test with, but it could be malformed syntax that prevented it from working for you.

HTH,

Joseph

Anon

Thanx Vincent and Joseph,
Sorry Joseph your coading is not working with netscape 4.6. But I did it through javascript.
Vincent..I am doing it for a user form which is filled by user and later when he want to make some changes on his account he will be ristricted for some fields in which he cant make any changes..

Thanx to you both
Tabish

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Why don't you go for a more secure solution, and print the value from the textarea as plaintext instead of in an textarea field.

Anon

Dear Tabish,

I am thrilled to learn that you hve found r adopted a solution to this problem. I am still suffering. Care to help me out?

Galib Anwar

Anon

Hey,
It's Ghalib or Galib ??Anyway.. I had found this solution a decade ago 😉
You can use java script to move your foucus... What i did was when ever focous comes on this perticuler text box, I used to put the focus on to another textbox, which is actually next after this.. It's just a trick..I hope you would love..
If still unable to get it..Feel free to mail me at tabish007@yahoo.com

Regards
Tabish