Subj : Re: disable textbox in Mozilla?
To   : Steve K <wombat193@bigpond.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Mon Nov 17 2003 03:20 pm

Steve K wrote:

>"Martin Honnen" <Martin.Honnen@t-online.de> wrote in message
>news:bpab79$1c11@ripley.netscape.com
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>>Steve K wrote:
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>>>trying to get Mozilla 1.6 to gray-out(disable) a textbox seems not to
>>>work. For IE it is a simple:
>>>document.MyForm.LastName.disabled=1;
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>>>...but Mozilla just ignores this statement?!
>>>Any ideas?
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>>Next time ask in the JavaScript group on the secure server or in the DOM
>>group.
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>hmm, this is a javascript group - I am not wrong here.....
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No, you're in the wrong group.  See cross-post, with followup-to: set.  
This group is for discussion about Mozilla's JS engines, and the JS 
language.  You're asking a DOM question, whose likely answer wouldn't 
vary if the scripting language in question were VBScript or Python.

/be

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>>Try setting
>>   document.formName.inputName.disabled = true
>>as true is the proper boolean value for disabled and not 1 which is a
>>number
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>this fails to work as well - will try a dom group if no one knows...
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