Disabling Form Fields

MooMan65 · November 3rd, 2004, 03:27 PM

Hey everyone, I'm currently modding a forum that requires information to be submitted in order to create a new character. However what I want is that after someone has created a character they cannot change some of the values. Now for example where you enter in your character name I use if conditionals to determine if they are creating a character or editing one:

Code:

<if condition="$member[name]==''>
<input type='text' name='name' value='{$member[name]}' size="25" maxlength="30" class='bginput'>
<else />
<input type='text' name='name' value='{$member[name]}' size="25" maxlength="30" class='bginput'>
</if>

What I want to do is ask if there is some way I can adjust the code in bold to make it so that input field is read only (like in any program when something is disabled) so people cannot alter the contents inside.

Thanks.

Greg Griffiths · November 3rd, 2004, 06:02 PM

You could look at using the DISABLED or READONLY attributes of the INPUT tag. ALternatively you could add a Javascript event such as ONFOCUS=BLUR(); or you could just display the field as plain text with no Form elements.

MooMan65 · November 3rd, 2004, 07:09 PM

Ahh thanks! Does that work like:

Code:

<input attribute="readonly" type="text"...>

or

Code:

<input readonly type="text"...>

Greg Griffiths · November 4th, 2004, 07:07 PM

see http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/form..._DISABLED.html