Making TextArea Readonly (IE Works, NS Wont, Figures) 2

[Karl Blessing]

I'd like to start off by saying that NS should just die (it's a developer's nightmare) in any case, I still have to design/develop for both. Here is the problem.

I want to make a textarea readonly
this is pretty easy and typically done by

<Textarea readonly ....> Some Text </Textarea>

this works just fine in IE, but in NS, I am still able to place my cursor in it, and change stuff, add stuff, etc, and submit it changed.

I even tried the XHTML method of doing readonly=&quot;readonly&quot; , and yet NS still wont lock the textarea.

Any clues?, you know it might be helpful if someone created some sort of reasources, of the common attributes that work perfectly in IE, but cost an arm and a leg to investigate in NS. Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}

 

[Karl Blessing]

Blah

http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/technotes/xref/dom-html-element/TEXTAREA.html

according to that, &quot;readonly&quot; property is only NS6 and IE5.5 compatible

Hmm so i guess my question still stands, how can i keep a user from editing the textarea in NS (non-6) Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}

 

[link9]

howabout using a focus remover like this:

onFocus=&quot;someOtherElement.focus();&quot;

a bit of a hack, but I think it would do the trick.

 

[luciddream]

<textarea onfocus=&quot;this.blur()&quot;></textarea> luciddream@subdimension.com

 

[Karl Blessing]

I put the example of this on my site at

http://www.kb244.com/Testbed/NSCompat/textarea.asp

you'll see the before and after(with your sugestion) Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}