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how to read textbox attribute through jquery and findout is it readonly

How to get the value of texbox attribute readonly and set other textbox to readyonly

szewkam

The attr function: http://api.jquery.com/attr/

hariaspind

ASKER

I tried this .this code sets the readonly att to "true" .but the textbox is still editable.But why ?

$("#divResult").find("textarea").attr('ReadOnly', true);

szewkam

true isn't a boolean, but text ;). Try:
$("#divResult").find("textarea").attr('ReadOnly', 'true'); - works for me

leakim971

check this :

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<script language="javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
<script language="javascript">
	$(document).ready(function() {
		$("#but").click(function() {
			// get the value of the readonly textbox
			var val = $("input[readonly='readonly']").val();
			// set the value of the writeable textbox
			$("input[readonly!='readonly'][type='text']").val(val);
			// set it as readonly
			$("input[readonly!='readonly'][type='text']").attr("readonly","readonly");
		});
	});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="text" readonly="readonly" value="I'm readonly" />
<br />
<br />
<input type="text" value="you can modify my value" />
<br />
<br />
<input type="button" id="but" value="search readony and set readonly" />
</body>
</html>

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hariaspind

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Thank.I got my issue fixed.