Setting a textarea to read only

Lovens Weche

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.create Element('textar ea');

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

objTextArea.set Attribute('rows ', this.TextAreaRo ws);

objTextArea.set Attribute('cols ', this.TextAreaCo ls);

objTextArea.set Attribute('read only', 'readonly');

document.getEle mentById('maste rDiv').parentNo de.appendChild( objTextArea);

document.getEle mentById('textA rea' + this.InfoBoxID) .style.position =
'absolute';

document.getEle mentById('textA rea' + this.InfoBoxID) .innerHTML =
textInTextArea;

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

***snip***

</script>

</head>

<body onload="Onload( );" bgcolor="#FFFF9 9">

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

</body>

---------------------------------

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 <divmasterDiv ??

Thanks in advance!
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Jul 30 '06 #1

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Martin Honnen

Lovens Weche wrote:

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

objTextArea = document.create Element('textar ea');

objTextArea.set Attribute('read only', 'readonly');

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

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Jul 30 '06 #2

Lovens Weche

ok it works now... Thanks Martin!

Lovens

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>

Lovens Weche wrote:

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

>objTextArea = document.create Element('textar ea');

>objTextArea.se tAttribute('rea donly', 'readonly');

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

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Jul 31 '06 #3

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