"BLOCKED" text boxes?

[PoorDoggie]

Hi. On some websites they seem to have a way of "blocking" textboxes and sometimes buttons. You know the places where you click on the button and it goes gray and you can't click on it again. Or where you submit a form and to tell you what you have submitted they show the form again, but with textboxes you cant write into this time?

I want to be able to do that?

Can anyone help me?

Thanks
Tom

 

[Peter]

These sites use javascript.

A script that does this should be easy enough to find using somewhere like hotscripts

 

[MadAboutDomains]

<input type="text" size="12" DISABLED>

This will disable the text box from being entered into. Just add DISABLED into any form element.

But if you want to go all the way, and disable the submit button on submit, Then You may use this code that I took ages Tracking down one time on a project of mine:

PUT THIS CODE ANYWHERE IN YOUR PAGE:

<script>
function submitonce(theform){
if (document.all||document.getElementById){
//screen thru every element in the form, and hunt down "submit" and "reset"
for (i=0;i<theform.length;i++){
var tempobj=theform.elements[i]
if(tempobj.type.toLowerCase()=="submit"||tempobj.type.toLowerCase()=="reset")
//disable em
tempobj.disabled=true
}
}
}
</script>

THEN add

NAME="submit" 

or

NAME="reset"

... To your Submit or reset button tags

EXAMPLE:

<input type="submit" value="Submit Me!" NAME="submit">
<input type="reset" value="Reset Me!" NAME="reset">

And this should make those Objects Disable on Submit!

Hope this Helps!

 

[PoorDoggie]

wow thanks

I just wanted the "disabled" bit, so that I could use it as part of the display in my website. I hope you didn't go to too much trouble geting all that javascript!

Thanks
Tom