Setting a textarea to read only

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Lovens Weche - 30 Jul 2006 18:44 GMT

I'm trying to set the "readonly" attribute of a "textarea" element this way:

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<script type="text/javascript">

***snip***

//-- create text area element --

var objTextArea;

objTextArea = document.createElement('textarea');

objTextArea.setAttribute('id', 'textArea' + this.InfoBoxID);

objTextArea.setAttribute('rows', this.TextAreaRows);

objTextArea.setAttribute('cols', this.TextAreaCols);

objTextArea.setAttribute('readonly', 'readonly');

document.getElementById('masterDiv').parentNode.appendChild(objTextArea);

document.getElementById('textArea' + this.InfoBoxID).style.position =
'absolute';

document.getElementById('textArea' + this.InfoBoxID).innerHTML =
textInTextArea;

//------------------------------

***snip***

</script>

</head>

<body onload="Onload();" bgcolor="#FFFF99">

<div id="masterDiv"></div>

</body>

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In this code, the textarea is never set to read only. I can always change
the content.

Also how can I had a node without the need to create the <div> masterDiv??

Thanks in advance!

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Martin Honnen - 30 Jul 2006 18:55 GMT

> I'm trying to set the "readonly" attribute of a "textarea" element this way:

> objTextArea = document.createElement('textarea');

> objTextArea.setAttribute('readonly', 'readonly');

Use the HTML DOM as follows
objTextArea.readOnly = true;
that has much better cross browser support than setAttribute has in HTML
documents.

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Lovens Weche - 31 Jul 2006 18:42 GMT

ok it works now... Thanks Martin!

Lovens

>> I'm trying to set the "readonly" attribute of a "textarea" element this
>> way:
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> that has much better cross browser support than setAttribute has in HTML
> documents.

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