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aspx_professional thread: Disabled fields and viewstate?


Message #1 by Philo <philo@r...> on Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:48:09 -0400
At 09:32 AM 7/15/2002 -0400, Feduke Cntr Charles R wrote:
>Philo,
>
>         The standard operation of a disabled field is to not submit the
>value when the field is disabled.  So your options in this regard are pretty
>limited: you can hide your fields with style="visibility: hidden" (.Visible
>= false will prevent the control from rendering so that's not a good idea)
>and make dummy controls that mirror the values of these "invisible" controls
>- if something can occur client side to change the values of the disabled
>controls that is.  Otherwise pack the values in ViewState and extract them
>manually.

Thanks for your answer - I came up with a better (forehead-smacking) 
solution: enable the controls, make them readonly, and set the tabindex to 
skip them.

Works a treat. I had been thinking VBish and looking for "locked" instead 
of "readonly" :/

Philo



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