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July 21st, 2003, 04:40 PM

PFerrara

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Can't post back disabled forms?

Interesting. I have a form, and after you fill it out, it goes to a confirmation page with the form reprinted all of the fields disabled, and asks you to confirm it. If yes, it takes the information and inserts into a database, otherwise it goes back reenabling the forms and placing the data there for you to change. But it seems you cant post information in a disabled form. Guess I'll have to use hiddens instead.

July 21st, 2003, 06:18 PM

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Make the fields 'read only' and not disabled...

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July 22nd, 2003, 03:39 AM

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You can make this work using your original code with the DISABLED keyword along with a little javascript.
Take a look at the following example:

PHP Code:


		
			
<html>

<head>

<title>Text Confirm</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<meta http-equiv="content-script-type" content="text/javascript">

<script language="javascript">

    function activateElements()

    {

        document.all.firstname.disabled = false; document.all.lastname.disabled = false; document.all.email.disabled = false; document.all.password.disabled = false;

    }

</script>

</head>

<body>

<form name="frmConfirm" method="get" action="textconfirm.htm">

  <table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

    <tr>

      <td align="right" nowrap>First Name</td>

      <td><input type="text" name="firstname" value="Wil" DISABLED></td>

    </tr>

    <tr>

      <td align="right" nowrap>Last Name</td>

      <td><input type="text" name="lastname" value="Moore" DISABLED></td>

    </tr>

    <tr>

      <td align="right" nowrap>Email</td>

      <td><input type="text" name="email" value="wil@wilmoore.com" DISABLED></td>

    </tr>

    <tr>

      <td align="right" nowrap>Password</td>

      <td><input type="text" name="password" value="testpass" DISABLED></td>

    </tr>

    <tr>

      <td align="right" nowrap>&nbsp;</td>

      <td><input type="button" name="btnConfirm" value="confirm" onclick="activateElements();frmConfirm.submit();"></td>

    </tr>

  </table>

</form>

</body>

</html>

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July 22nd, 2003, 10:32 AM