textarea with some parts of text locked

[Masali]

Hello!

Is it possible (maybe with javascript) to have a textarea like this:

[tt]
--------------------------------------------
|This text is editable. It can also be |
|longer when extra text is added. |
| |
| |
|This text is not editable. It is just |
|showed for the user. |
| |
| |
--------------------------------------------
[/tt]

The purpose of this is a mail program i am doing that needs to show earlier communication between the users. When replying a mail the earlier communication is the lower part of the textarea and the part in the top, is where the user should write the reply.

/Masali

 

[Foamcow]

Why not just ouput the previous communication as regular text and have a textarea solely for the reply?

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Absolutely - that's going to be the easiest way. You cannot selectively block text in a text area to be locked.

Dan


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[Masali]

yes, maybe that's the easiest.. thanks for your replies

 

[Foamcow]

Well it's how everyone else does it.

;-)

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