Hello,
I have created a form for my site that has some fields already filled out, like the users name and department ID. How can I make it so they cannot change these values?

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adding disabled to the imput line should remove any change of user editing.

I'll give it a shot.

THANKS!

It does disable the field but it does not write the data to my database after I hit submit.
In other words, if I pre-fill a name field and disable it, once the submit button is clicked it writes everything to the database except the pre-filled name.

Am I missing something?

The info you want to be already filled in doesn’t need to go in a form field, you can just write it to the page, then you can put the info you want submitting to the database in hidden fields.

Hope it makes sense
Wayne

Yes, that makes sense.
I shall try it ASAP.

Thanks!

You can also use the readonly attribute. Works well, and still allows the info in the field to be submitted.

Matt Millican
InternetMill.com
www.internetmill.com
(XP Pro / Dreamweaver MX / Access XP Pro/ MS SQL / ASP / VB Script / PHP, mySQL / Photoshop / Fireworks)

u could also just response write these to the page, seeing as you don't want them changing

they don't even need to be included in the form

regards

Dave Thomas
<b>DMX Zone Manager</b>

Tried using hidden field but I couldn't get it to populate the sql table... I'm sure I am doing something wrong. What about the read only attribute, how is that done?

Thanx in advance,
Jmb

&lt;input name="symbol" type="text" readonly="yes" value="" size="32"&gt;

use readonly="yes" inyour text field.

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My vote is the readonly, IF you must have the ID/field shown on the form, otherwise use a hidden field.

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Readonly worked great!

Thanks once again to all that responded.

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