Cant hide text box in IE but is hidden in Chrome and Firefox

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I have a text box on a form that I have set to fill with pre-defined text when the user navigates to my page. I want the text box hidden from the user so they can not view the text that is in the box. I have the entire table row element "hidden" from the user and I have used several methods for this...
hidden = "true"
visible = "false"
style="visibility:hidden;display:none;"
For each of these the intended outcome is recognized in Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers (the text box is hidden from the user but still contains the information necessary. However, in IE the text box is still being displayed to the user. While it does have the text required still inside of it I really wish to hide this element from the user. Can anyone help me with this issue?

update:
I am getting the same behavior if I put the section I am trying to hide from the user inside of it's own <div> tag, that is to say that it is still NOT being hidden from the user in Internet Explorer (9.0)

Jul 18 '11 #1

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Plater

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Why not just use the hidden input type ?
<input type="hidden" value="Some value you want kept hidden"/>

Jul 19 '11 #2

John Scott

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No, this will not work because I do not want the user to even be aware of this text box. The less confusion the better and I don't want them seeing an empty text box thinking something needs to be filled out. Thank you though.

Jul 19 '11 #3

Plater

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Hidden fields are not shown to the user. They are a basis of HTML.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_type.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/dom_obj_hidden.asp

Jul 19 '11 #4

Sathish515

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@John Scott
Just set the visibility:hidden property in styles

Sep 30 '14 #5

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