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user225269
user225269

Reputation: 10893

html text box form that will not allow input

Is there any class in an html form that does not allow you to input or change the value in that text box. But you can see its content , for example the code below will allow you to see the content of the record in mysql database. But what I want is for it not to be edited. What would I add to the code below so that its content will not be editted by the users:

   <tr>
<td><font size="3">Civil Status</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input name="cs" type="text" maxlength="7" value="<?php echo $row["CSTAT"]; ?>"></td>
<td><font size="3">Age</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input name="age" type="text" maxlength="3" value="<?php echo $row["AGE"]; ?>"></td>
<td><font size="3">Birthday</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input name="bday" type="text" maxlength="12" value="<?php echo $row["BDAY"]; ?>"></td>

</tr>

<tr>
<td><font size="3">Address</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input name="ad" type="text" maxlength="25" value="<?php echo $row["ADDRESS"]; ?>"></td>
<td><font size="3">Telephone #</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input name="telnum" type="text" maxlength="11" value="<?php echo $row["TELNUM"]; ?>"></td>

<td width="23"><font size="3">Sex</td>
<td width="3">:</td>
<td width="174"><input name="sex" type="text"  maxlength="1" value="<?php echo $row["SEX"]; ?>"></td>
</tr>

Upvotes: 12

Views: 91168

Answers (6)

Nikhil Mahirrao
Nikhil Mahirrao

Reputation: 3721

You can try "disabled" OR "readonly"

<form> 
  <label for="disabled">Disabled</label><br> 
  <input name="disabled" value="disabled" disabled>
  <br><br>
  <label for="readonly">Read Only</label><br> 
  <input name="readonly" value="readonly" readonly> 
</form>

Upvotes: 3

Daniel Vassallo
Daniel Vassallo

Reputation: 344491

What about the readonly attribute?

<input type="text" name="telnum" value="123456" readonly="readonly" />

Upvotes: 45

hearn
hearn

Reputation: 1017

Use the readonly attribute

<input readonly="value" />

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_readonly.asp

Upvotes: 2

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Reputation: 799230

If you don't want it edited, and if there's no reason for it ever to be edited, then it shouldn't be in an input element at all. Just echo it as normal text.

Upvotes: 4

Haim Evgi
Haim Evgi

Reputation: 125604

use readonly

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_readonly.asp

Upvotes: 2

Andy Shellam
Andy Shellam

Reputation: 15535

You can put readonly="readonly" in your <input> tag. You can also use disabled="disabled". Both provide varying degrees of "disabled-ness" as demonstrated here.

This is not fail-safe, though. Make sure that you do check when the form is POSTed back if the value has been modified - someone can craft a valid POST request with the field value modified - there's nothing you can do about that except check on the server-side if it's been modified from what it was originally.

Upvotes: 15

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