Yes indeed.
Although I would not attempt to make the div look exactly like a text
area, that would be a very painful exercise.
My thoughts were along the lines of:
.readonlytextearea {
width: 500px;
height: 150px;
overflow: auto;
border: thin solid #000;
}
Erik.
ChuckDeal schreef:
> To be clear, you are proposing that I create a new component that generates a
> div with css that makes it appear to be a TextArea, then when I determine
> (determination based upon the user/data) that I want a readonly TextArea, I
> replace the real TextArea with a FakeTextArea prior to rendering?
>
> Before I attempt this myself, has anyone created a div based TextArea
> component, that can be made available to me?
>
>
> Erik van Oosten wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It is up to the component on how to interpreted the disabled property.
>> In your case you could make a new form component (use TextArea as
>> template) that shows a div with scroll bars instead of an input element.
>> If you still need the input element, simply add it, but make it hidden.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Erik.
>>
>>
>> ChuckDeal schreef:
>>
>>> I'm not sure about other browsers, but IE6 doesn't allow scrolling of a
>>> disabled TextArea. TextArea extends FormComponent and form component has
>>> an
>>> internal Behavior that adds the disabled attribute when the field is set
>>> to
>>> disabled (setEnabled(false)). This causes my project grief because we
>>> need
>>> to add the READONLY attribute instead. But, as far as I can see there is
>>> no
>>> way to remove a Behavior because they are not "named (ala a Map) and the
>>> getBehaviors returns an unmodifiable List. I see that the
>>> DisabledAttributeModifier extends AttributeModifer that supports an
>>> enabled
>>> flag, but this internal class is private and it makes working with it
>>> difficult.
>>>
>>> Does this non-scrolling behavior happen with other browsers or just IE?
>>> If
>>> it happens elsewhere, might I suggest that Wicket change it's default
>>> behavior to put a readonly attribute instead of disabled?
>>>
>>> What is the recommended way of working with behaviors that are already
>>> added
>>> to a Component?
>>>
>>> Here is what I came up with for disabling the behavior for a TextArea.
>>> Notice that I had to use the FQN instead of the Class object because the
>>> behavior is private to FormComponent.
>>>
>>> public class TextAreaFixer {
>>> /**
>>> * Constructor for TextAreaFixer
>>> */
>>> private TextAreaFixer() {
>>> super();
>>> }
>>>
>>> /**
>>> * Find the FormComponent$DisabledAttributeModifier and disable it!
>>> *
>>> * @param textArea
>>> */
>>> public static void updateTextArea(TextArea textArea) {
>>> for (IBehavior behavior :
>>> (List<IBehavior>)textArea.getBehaviors()) {
>>> if
>>> (behavior.getClass().getName().equals("wicket.markup.html.form.FormComponent$DisabledAttributeModifier"))
>>> {
>>> ((AttributeModifier)behavior).setEnabled(false);
>>> break;
>>> }
>>> }
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> Then to use it, in my code:
>>>
>>> TextArea description = new TextArea("description");
>>> add(description);
>>> TextAreaFixer.updateTextArea(description);
>>>
>>> Is ther a better way to do what I am trying to accomplish?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> Erik van Oosten
>> http://www.day-to-day-stuff.blogspot.com/
>>
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