In IE you can use the disabled attribute, but for most browsers you are
better off using onfocus="blur();" although if Javascript is disabled this
will not work, why not display them as plain text ?
At 23:32 16/08/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Could you please send me some info regarding how to enable/disable form
>elements for Netscape?
>
>Thanks
>
>Lei
>
>
> > I'm not sure how to check if the user has visited the page before (I you
> > want to use cookies, parameter in the QueryString or something similar).
> >
> > But to enable/disable a button, you can write code like this (IE only,
> > version 4 and up):
> >
> >
> > changeButtonState(true) to disable it, changeButtonState(false) to enable
> > it.
> >
> >
> > <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
> > function changeButtonState(bDisable){
> > document.all.forwardInput.disabled = bDisable;
> > }
> > </script>
> >
> > <body>
> >
> > <form>
> > <input type="button" id="forwardInput">
> > </form>
> >
> > </body>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > /Robert
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nick [mailto:nick@i...]
> > Sent: den 1 oktober 2001 13:17
> > To: javascript
> > Subject: [javascript] RE: how do you enable/disable a form button
> >
> >
> > How would i go about enabling /disabling a forward navigation button
>then?
>
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>
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