Making fields Read Only using CSS

[JMosca77]

Hi,Is there a way to make a field read only using CSS? I need to prevent users from changing field values after a form has been submitted. I think CSS would be the best way to accomplish this without having to create duplicate forms with Read Only fields, but I can't get it to work.Thanks for any help.

[scott100]

Not css but javascript, if you get the id of the element you can disable it.http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?file...select_disabled

[JMosca77]

Thanks for the info! Do you know of any way in Javascript I can write a loop that goes through all the fields on a form (without having to hard code each field name) and disable them?

[aspnetguy]

var fields = document.getElementsByTagName('input');for(var i=0;i<fields.length;i++){	if(fields[i].type == 'text')		fields[i].disabled = true;}

try that

[scott100]

sure do:

elm=document.forms[0];for (i=0;i<elm.length;++ i){  elm[i].disabled=true;}

[aspnetguy]

sure do:

elm=document.forms[0];for (i=0;i<elm.length;++ i){  elm[i].disabled=true;}

will that really work? elm is just a form object, is the form object just a collection of the elements in the form?If it does work i did not know that,

[JMosca77]

will that really work? elm is just a form object, is the form object just a collection of the elements in the form?If it does work i did not know that,

Both options worked, however ASPNETGUY's worked better for me because it made all fields (text, radio buttons, etc.) inactive instead of just fields.Thanks guys!

[aspnetguy]

I just thought of this. If you have password fields you will want to modify the if statement to look like this

if(fields[i].type == 'text' || fields[i].type == 'password')

[scott100]

will that really work? elm is just a form object, is the form object just a collection of the elements in the form?If it does work i did not know that,

Yeah it does work, it's just shorthand for the second one.elm.disabled=true;elm.elements.disabled=true;but yeah yours was a bit more detailed so it'd work better cause mine would disable everthing (like the submit button )