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How do i make a textbox value disable + cannot edit_URGENT

Hi,
LEts say i have a texbox:

<input type="text" name="username" value=<%=username%> size=20 />

How do i make disable so that the user cannot change that value.

Second question:
LEts 's say a user gets a value from the pop-up calender, or list, the textbox, where the value is put in cannot be edited by the user.
How do i do that?

Thanks

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jaysolomon

or

<input type="hidden" name="username" value="<%= username%> />

and then just write there name on the page

<%
response.write(request.form("username"))
%>

Jasbir21

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Hi,
when i tried i got the error :
C:\apache\tomcat\work\Catalina\localhost\jsp-examples\org\apache\jsp\jsp2\jas_jsp.java:331: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : method form (java.lang.String)
location: interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest
response.write(request.form("username"));
^
I can't figure out why,thanks

VincentPuglia

if you mean jay's last example -- that is not javascript; it is asp/vbscript

Vinny

jaysolomon

sorry i thought it was asp

what is it jsp?

if so i no notta about it

Jasbir21

ASKER

oh, jsp is java servlet pages, i am just beginning to learn that ,

Thanks so much for the help, i would be spliting points since both answers were very very helpful. I guess, its' an A with both accepted answers.

Thanks and God bless