diabling fields on my form...

[Mel]

i am presenting a form to the user as a sample and DO NOT wish the user to
make any changes !

is it possible to loop throuh all my form items and disable them all except
Next and Prev submit buttons ?

many thanks

Mel

[Randy Webb]

Re: diabling fields on my form...

Mel wrote:[color=blue]
> i am presenting a form to the user as a sample and DO NOT wish the user to
> make any changes !
>
> is it possible to loop throuh all my form items and disable them all except
> Next and Prev submit buttons ?[/color]

Instead of making them form elements, simply make them span/divs and use
CSS to make them appear to be form elements.

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Randy
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[Amir Hardon]

Re: diabling fields on my form...

Mel wrote:
[color=blue]
> i am presenting a form to the user as a sample and DO NOT wish the user to
> make any changes !
>
> is it possible to loop throuh all my form items and disable them all
> except Next and Prev submit buttons ?
>
> many thanks
>
> Mel[/color]

Why not using the readonly directive? for example:
<input type="text" name="Hi" value="Hello world!" readonly>

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[Mel]

Re: diabling fields on my form...

thanks, i think your suggestion of readonly works better for me, since later
on in the project i would like to enable them and not change
much of the code

Yours, Me


"Amir Hardon" <ha-dont_spam_me-rdon@actcom.co. il> wrote in message
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> Mel wrote:
>[color=green]
> > i am presenting a form to the user as a sample and DO NOT wish the user[/color][/color]
to[color=blue][color=green]
> > make any changes !
> >
> > is it possible to loop throuh all my form items and disable them all
> > except Next and Prev submit buttons ?
> >
> > many thanks
> >
> > Mel[/color]
>
> Why not using the readonly directive? for example:
> <input type="text" name="Hi" value="Hello world!" readonly>
>
> --
> Remove the 'dont_spam_me' and the dashes before mailing me.[/color]

[Andrew Urquhart]

Re: diabling fields on my form...

"Mel" <jmel@redolive. com> wrote in message
news:85dd$4040a 2cf$44a7759e$17 858@msgid.megan ewsservers.com. ..[color=blue]
> i am presenting a form to the user as a sample and DO NOT wish the[/color]
user to[color=blue]
> make any changes !
>
> is it possible to loop throuh all my form items and disable them all[/color]
except[color=blue]
> Next and Prev submit buttons ?[/color]

Sure, find the correct form from the form collection, traverse the
elements collection in that form, if the value of the 'type' property of
a given element meets your criteria disable that element.

One problem though is that if someone turns off javascript, or doesn't
have that capability, then someone will eventually submit your form and
then what happens? Better to disable the form controls through HTML
attributes on the elements without using client-side script and change
the form action to a page that explains why they can't submit the form
and that it's only for display purposes. However, in general I'm not
convinced that this is a good example of a user interface, could you
perhaps instead explain to the user the details of the form without
resorting to this complexity?
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[Mel]

Re: diabling fields on my form...

readonly seems to work fine for text and textarea, but not for radio,
checkboxes and select pulldowns ?

can you help ?

thanks
Mel


"Amir Hardon" <ha-dont_spam_me-rdon@actcom.co. il> wrote in message
news:newscache$ latsth$l1k$1@ln ews.actcom.co.i l...[color=blue]
> Mel wrote:
>[color=green]
> > i am presenting a form to the user as a sample and DO NOT wish the user[/color][/color]
to[color=blue][color=green]
> > make any changes !
> >
> > is it possible to loop throuh all my form items and disable them all
> > except Next and Prev submit buttons ?
> >
> > many thanks
> >
> > Mel[/color]
>
> Why not using the readonly directive? for example:
> <input type="text" name="Hi" value="Hello world!" readonly>
>
> --
> Remove the 'dont_spam_me' and the dashes before mailing me.[/color]

[Evertjan.]

Re: diabling fields on my form...

Mel wrote on 28 feb 2004 in comp.lang.javas cript:
[color=blue]
> readonly seems to work fine for text and textarea, but not for radio,
> checkboxes and select pulldowns ?
>[/color]

Input-Radio:

use

<input type=radio name=x disabled>

or

<input type=radio name=x disabled checked>

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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: diabling fields on my form...

Amir Hardon wrote:
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> Mel wrote:[color=green]
>> i am presenting a form to the user as a sample and DO NOT wish the user to
>> make any changes ![/color]
>
> Why not using the readonly directive? for example:
> <input type="text" name="Hi" value="Hello world!" readonly>[/color]

"readonly" is not a directive, it is a boolean attribute. Thus
it can be written as <... readonly="reado nly" ...>, which is BTW
the required form for XHTML.


PointedEars