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scott69

scott69

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Sep 21, 2002
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Hi,

I need help with the following if possible??

I have a form that has several fields in it, both text fields and hidden fields that are passed to a CGI program. I have some random text displayed on the form based on the date and time and that works fine.

I would like to disable at least one of the hidden fields using the date and time function so that say after 17:00 the field is disabled but after 09:00 it is enabled. As I say the time side is OK but I have no idea what code I should use to disable the hidden field. Do I insert the HTML into the javascript function or what? And if so how? Any ideas and help would be much appreciated!

Scott.
 
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uh, what exactly is the hidden field for? it doesn't make sense to disable a hidden field, since it is not available for direct user input in the first place


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while (!succeed) try();
-jeff
 
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Apologies for any confusion. The field contains a value that I do not want passed after 17:00. I know the user can't modify it and that's fine, but it needs to be unavailable - i.e. the value not passed after this time.

Thanks

Scott.
 
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i would have the cgi handle it...

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-jeff
 
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Yeah.....that's what I feared you might say. It's a third party CGI and I don't know enough to mess with that.... is there no way with javascript??

Thanks
 
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well, if the field literally contains a value like "09:00", then you could do something like:

function checkField(oField) {
var arVal = oField.value.split(":");
if (parseInt(arVal[0], 10) >= 17 &&
parseInt(arVal[1], 10) > 0) oField.disabled = true;
}

and call it when the page loads, like
<body onload=&quot;checkField(document.forms[0].hiddenFieldName)&quot;>

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-jeff
 
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