Not saying one way or the other which is better for the application in
question, but I think one of the major differences between disabled and
readonly is that a readonly field will still send it's contents as part of
the form submission while a disabled field will not.
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Steve Comrie
> Sabherwal, Balvinder (MBS) wrote:
> > Thanks but this will not help me. I need to have this as part of the
form
> > and visible but not editable. I figured it out though. If you set the
> > attribute -readonly => 1, it does the trick.
>
> I had forgotten about that attribute, but a quick question? don't you
> think it might be confusing to users who can't modify a field even
> though it looks like every other field? I would think that using a
> 'disabled' input field would be less confusing and we all know how
> confused some users can be.
>
> Just a thought...
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