Re: newbie:restricting users to change data in a textarea

Hi Mirco, Try adding either "readonly" or "disabled" to the textarea tag: > print "<textarea name=variable readonly rows=1 > > cols=10>".stripslashes($row['variable'])."</textarea><br>"; Hope this helps, -Step [...] > There is one field that I whant to stop them from changing. This field I also > use in my sql query when updating the table,ie. where variable='$variable'. So > what I did was simply this: > > "<tr>\n"; > print "\t<td>$variable</td>\n"; > print "</tr>\n"; > > instead of: > > print "<textarea name=variable rows=1 > > cols=10>".stripslashes($row['variable'])."</textarea><br>"; > > This definately stopped them from editing it but also disabled the mysql > query from working. Can anyone just give me a couple of ideas how I can make > this work. > > Thanks > Mirco