Can I Disable an input element but still have Black text? 1

[jsteph]

I want the element to look normal, but not be editable. Do I have to trap keystroks for this? If so, how? Thanks,
--Jim

 

[kaht]

Try setting the readonly property:

<input type="text" [!]readonly="readonly"[/!] value="try to type over me" />

-kaht

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[cLFlaVA]

one javascript workaround is to use the onfocus() event:

<input type="text" name="t1" onfocus="this.blur();" />

however, that will only work with javascript enabled, and, that really belongs in the javascript forum. i guess you could say i pulled a "j4606".

you cannot style a disabled element differently - the gray, i'm afraid, you're stuck with.

you can possibly style a transparent div over the input element, but i don't think that would eliminate tabbing to the field.



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[cLFlaVA]

or, you could go with kaht, and ignore my blabbering.



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[jsteph]

kaht,
That did it!
--Jim

 

[jsteph]

As a follow-up, I ended up with an alternative to the readonly--which does work as advertised, but I wanted to be able to put the cursor in the controls because the users like to tab through the fields to navigate.

So a keypress event, which takes the event.keycode and sets it null works here--it doesn't nullify tabs, etc, only printable chars.
--Jim

 

[cLFlaVA]

readonly:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#adef-readonly

Read-only elements are included in tabbing navigation.

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[j4606]

however, that will only work with javascript enabled, and, that really belongs in the javascript forum. i guess you could say i pulled a "j4606".

I don't know the answer but my good friend Google does.

 

[cLFlaVA]

[purple]just a joke man.[/purple]



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[j4606]

Hah,I know, It gave me a chuckle when i saw my name i had to do a double take. unfortunatly work has me busy atm so i just post smileys. It's acctually refreshing to see some personalities behind the screen names and I enjoy the jabs you and kaht take at each other. Hopefully no one will pull a 'j4606' while I'm gone.

I don't know the answer but my good friend Google does.

 

[cLFlaVA]

who's kaht?



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