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Re: Read only fields

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Oct 11, 2006 5:00AM

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Lise L. Hansen wrote:

> Do you know whether it does not satisfy the standards of W3C if the
> background color of Read-only fields are being grayed out, or whether it
> is okay to do? As long as the contrast is still okay, of course.

I think the key question is whether read-only fields should be used at
all. You can avoid their problems by using hidden fields instead, possibly
duplicating their data in normal visible (non-field) content if needed.

So instead of

<label for="cust">Customer no.: </label>
<input readonly id="cust" name="cust" value="123456">

you can use

Customer no.: 123456
<input type="hidden" name="cust" value="123456">

or, depending on the purpose, without the visible text.

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/