Sending data from disabled fields

[wacala]

Maybe a too specific suggestion but could be a good thing to have an option to send data from disabled fields. There's a thread from 2007 (http://www.tectite.com/vbforums/show...=6001#poststop) asking for help apparently with no solution. I'm wrong?

Thanks a lot.

[russellr]

Hi,

We cannot make browsers do what they are not designed to do.

A disabled field is simply not submitted by browsers.

That's the way they work.

We cannot change that.

[wacala]

Thanks a lot for the super fast answer. I did not know about that restriction. I'm going to consider that situation next time.

There's something to learn every day.

Congratulations for the excellent support job.

Until next time russellr.

[lperroz]

Hi,
I found a workaround for this.
You just need to let the fields being enabled just before the submit.
A wat to do this is to substitute the standard "submit" button
with a function like


<form name="frmForm" action="formmail.php"><input type="text" id="txtName" value="hello" disabled="disabled" /><input type="button" onclick="changeTextbox();"></form><script>function changeTextbox(){document.txtName.disabled = false;document.frmForm.submit;}</script>
Ciao
Luca