Disable form input in IE7

[Kim]

I have a problem with IE7.

In Firefox2 and IE6 can I disable an input field in a form without any
problems, yet it doesnt work in IE7.
I havent seen this reported before.

Code:
document.Form.Field.disabled = true;


What is needed to make it work in all 3 browsers ?

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

I have a problem with IE7.

In Firefox2 and IE6 can I disable an input field in a form without any
problems, yet it doesnt work in IE7.

Are you sure? WFM, although the background color does not change automatically.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET
CLR 2.0.50727)

I havent seen this reported before.

Code:
document.Form.Field.disabled = true;

You better use the standards-compliant syntax:

document.forms["Form"].elements["Field"].disabled = true;

What is needed to make it work in all 3 browsers ?

That depends on which of the many other browsers out there you consider the
third one.


PointedEars

 

[Kim]

I have a problem with IE7.

In Firefox2 and IE6 can I disable an input field in a form without any
problems, yet it doesnt work in IE7.

Are you sure? WFM, although the background color does not change automatically.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET
CLR 2.0.50727)

I havent seen this reported before.

Code:
document.Form.Field.disabled = true;

You better use the standards-compliant syntax:

document.forms["Form"].elements["Field"].disabled = true;

What is needed to make it work in all 3 browsers ?

That depends on which of the many other browsers out there you consider the
third one.

PointedEars
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I did mention all 3 browsers (IE6, IE7 and Firefox).

But turns out the problem was a human error
I had forgotten to call the function in which the above line was used.
So WFM too after all