Text Object - Disable Typing

[toxicpaint]

Hi there.

I have a text-entry object contained in a form which I'm using to describe pictures as I can write to it easily and it goes well with the look of the site.

I was jus wondernig if there was any way of disabling the user from typing into it without sticking "disabled" in the input tag because I'm using CSS to style the input box and althougbh it looks fine in Firefox, IE keeps the grey shadow as well as the CSS settings.

Does anyone know of a quick JavaScript to solve this?

Thanks!

[vin]

Hi there.

I have a text-entry object contained in a form which I'm using to describe pictures as I can write to it easily and it goes well with the look of the site.

I was jus wondernig if there was any way of disabling the user from typing into it without sticking "disabled" in the input tag because I'm using CSS to style the input box and althougbh it looks fine in Firefox, IE keeps the grey shadow as well as the CSS settings.

Does anyone know of a quick JavaScript to solve this?

Thanks!

u culd use the key codes to restrict the input. in this way the style of ur inputbox wil remain the same n on key press nothin wil b entered to the input box. something like this u can do depending on wat all keys u want to restrict the user from entering them. this code wil restrict few keys like no space, no special characters like tht....

<input type="text" id="textbox" name="inputbox" onkeypress="if(event.keyCode < 48 || event.keyCode > 122) event.returnValue=false;if(event.keyCode > 57 && event.keyCode < 65) event.returnValue=false;if(event.keyCode > 90 && event.keyCode < 97) event.returnValue=false;">

[toxicpaint]

That's pretty much what I want! Except I want to block EVERY keyboard entry so that they can't delete the text or backspace it or hit enter..

[toxicpaint]

Can anyone help?

Here's what I'm working on, if it helps...

http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~tcowling/virtualtour

[toxicpaint]

It's koay. The solution was to add "readonly/" into the input tag.