Feedback: Disabling form elements

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Disabling form elements

Sent by Bill Rehm on April 30, 1999 at 13:32:02: - feedback #179

Worth:
Very worth reading

Length:
Just right

Technical:
Not technical enough

Comments:
The example code doesn't really work for Navigator, at least for version 4.5.1. The entire form is hidden by the ILAYER tag. I tried various things like explicitly setting BGCOLOR, style: backgroundcolor and style: layer-background-color, but none of them worked.

I still can't create a read-only form.

Sent by Neil Striker on October 01, 1999 at 09:17:02: - feedback #490

Worth:
Very worth reading

Comments:
I could not get the IE4 controls to lock a text input with the input undesturbed like it does for the password input. Any ideas? Other than that, this site is an amazing resource.

Sent by anitha on March 22, 2000 at 09:11:30: - feedback #967

Worth:
Very worth reading

Comments:
good

Sent by Jono Garnham on October 03, 2000 at 05:34:59: - feedback #1820

Worth:
Worth reading

Comments:
This looks like it would be a useful article if only the links to the code source and examples were working.

Sent by jcm0 on February 05, 2002 at 11:03:29: - feedback #3565

Length:
Too long

Comments:
to disable a form field, add to the form element tag:

onfocus="this.blur();"

this works with netscape.

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