form with readonly field

Posted by johnhelen on March 4, 2007 at 8:46am

Hello

I need to have a edit form that includes some fields. One of the fields is not editable. I can use this in my html code

<input type="text" name=myText value="Enter Your Name" readonly>

Could you please tell me how to do it using drupal

Many thanks
john

Comments

Webform module

Posted by New Oceans on March 4, 2007 at 9:23am

Not sure what you're after but may be you can give webform module a try:
- http://drupal.org/project/webform

With this module you can design forms with different kind of fields. These forms can be submitted (as a result e-mails can be sent), and all data will be stored in the database.

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#READONLY = true unavailable

Posted by scafmac on March 19, 2007 at 5:59pm

I believe what johnhelen is getting at is that although drupal's form api supports the '#disabled' attribute, it doesn't support the 'readonly' attribute. They were both introduced in html 4.0 with the primary difference, I believe, is a disabled form input submits no value whereas a readonly input will submit the default value.

In my mind this is a bug in the form.inc of Drupal.