Locking Text Areas

[Programmers]

Can you lock text areas like you can in VB, and other non-web-based programming?

I've created forms on my website and have a pre-selected field (based on where they came from), and I don't want the user to edit it. Is there any way I can disable the use of that text area?

[adb64]

Add the DISABLED attribute to the input or textarea formfields, e.g.:

<INPUT .... DISABLED>
<TEXTAREA .... DISABLED>

(replace .... with all your other formfield attributes)

[penders]

There is also the READONLY attribute (or readonly="readonly" for xhtml) which is much like the DISABLED attribute, except the text doesn't appear greyed-out and can still be selected, but they still can't change it.

[Programmers]

READONLY suited my purposes best. DISABLED actually disabled the area completly. Which means it was no good for form submissions.

Thanks everyone. =)