Locking a select: Part II

[TheConeHead]

OK I am locking a select via:

document.forms["formb"].elements["tech"].disabled=true;

while this does lock the select - it also takes away the value of the select so when I submit the form the value t=for this select comes back "undefined" - is there any way to lock a selct but not lose the value?

 

[mwolf00]

You can use a hidden field to hold it.

Or

<select name="myName" onBlur="this.selectedIndex=3">

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[kaht]

There's no easy "trick" to do this, but you can write up javascript to essentially do the same thing.

Here's some things you could try:
[ol]
[li]set an onfocus handler to cause the select element to lose focus (this.blur())[/li]
[li]at the time the select list is "locked", save the value to a variable, then set an onchange handler to set the list back to that value when it's changed[/li]
[li]hide the element at the time it becomes locked and display a <label> or <span> or something else in it's place, hidden elements are submitted with the page[/li]
[/ol]

While I don't really condone any of these practices, I think it's about as close as you're going to get unfortunately.....

-kaht

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[LFI]

There's another not-so-great way to do this: in the FORM's ONSUBMIT event, UN-disable the field.

I vote for the hidden form element though.

Dave

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[TheConeHead]

thanks - good suggestions...