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On HTML page I want to keep TEXTAREA controls read-only until the user starts typing characters. All other keyboard events should not change the read-only status. In my script, on the first typed character event the handler makes the control not read-only, but that character does not go to the control itself.
I tried to do the following:
I tried to do the following:
$(".textarea").keyup( function(ev) {
var k = ev.keyCode;
var inp = ev.target;
if( inp.readOnly && k >= 42 && k <= 90 ) { // an alphanumeric
inp.readOnly = false;
inp.select(); // without this IE do not accept typed in characters at all
// i tried this:
var sev = $.Event("keypress", {keyCode: k, which: k});
// and that:
var sev = $.Event("keypress", ev);
$(inp).trigger(sev);
}
} );
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