Question

We have a template set up and a HTML form from which to create topics based on the template. If the forms input box is set to disabled (<input type="text" name="topic" size="30" disabled="disabled" />), the contents of the text box will not be sent as a %URLPARAM{..., or in the case above there will be no topic name and the topic won't be created.

Is this supposed to be the case? or is it a bug?

Environment

-- AndrewRJones - 01 Dec 2006

Answer

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It is not a bug and should work. I believe that you are missing the value, eg, value =

-- SteveStark - 03 Dec 2006

The text box is getting filled in using javascript, and having a value attribute does not solve the problem.

-- AndrewRJones - 04 Dec 2006

There are several other ways.

1. Make your input field readonly, see Readonly fields in Web forms
2. Use a hidden field for the topic name and use javascript to write the value to the screen as text

-- ArthurClemens - 04 Dec 2006

Use a hidden form field:

<input type="hidden" name="topic" value="%URLPARAM{foo}%" />

-- PeterThoeny - 04 Dec 2006