textarea readonly="readonly"

[anatak]

Hello

I want a textarea field that displays text but that not let users modify the text.

 

disabled makes the text appear on a grey field which is not desirable.

 

I came across the readonly="readonly" attribute but could not find info on the w3schools page about it.

 

Is this supported across all browsers ?

Is this an official attribute of the HTML specifications ?

 

thank you

anatak

[aximbigfan]

just put readonly in the brackets, don't give it any arguments,

 

<textarea readonly></textarea>

 

EDIT: I read it wrong, yes I think it is a standard atrribute, at least it should work on all modern browsers.

 

Chris

[haku]

That should actually look like this (if you want valid code):

 

<textarea readonly="readonly" cols="___" rows="___">Text to only be read</textarea>

 

you have to fill in numbers for cols and rows.

 

Edit: in otherwords, the OP had the correct code. And yes, I think this is supported across all browsers.

[anatak]

thank you,

 

the text area field works without problems but I only tested in firefox 2 and IE6

Thanks for the replies

[alynu]

the correct term is readonly="true"   c ya

[Pikachu2000]

No it isn't, it's readonly="readonly". And was it really necessary to dredge up a 3 year old thread to post the wrong information? Locked.