Controlling text boxes

[Zapcat]

Does anyone know how to present values in a text box, but prevent the user from changing those values. I must be able to change the values using jscript.

Any ideas?

ZapCat:)

[chrismiceli]

you could make it where they focus on it (click or tab to it) it will direct them somewhere else like this

<form name="form1">
<input type="text" name="test" value="hi onfocus="document.form1.test0.focus()">
<input type="button" name="test0" value="should be focused">

there

[Bosko]

Eh,why not just use the disabled attribute?:
<input type="button" value="blah" disabled="disabled">

[adios]

<input type="text" readonly="readonly" onfocus="if(!this.readOnly)this.blur()">


The latter bit is for older browsers. Disabling grays out the control and effectively removes it from the form.

[Khaled]

Hi all
You can also use

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="test" VALUE="Test" READONLY>

I tried it on only IE6 and it works fine.