maybe you need to use custom tags. sandeep
-----Original Message----- From: John Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 4:07 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Setting html:text readonly attribute At 16:09 03/05/2004, Paul McCulloch wrote: >1) Use an html (rather than a jsp) tag: > > <input type="text" name="licenceCount" value="<c:out >value='${purchaseForm.licenceCount}'/>" size="3" readonly="<c:out >value='${purchaseForm.newPurchase}'/>" maxlength="5"/> I've found that this, unfortunately doesn't work, at least with my current browser of choice (Firefox), which insists on making the text field read-only as long as there is a 'readonly' attribute present. I'm exploring the other options next. I have to say, completely off-topic, that it strikes me as pretty moronic behaviour for a browser if you have a boolean attribute, readonly, and it interprets "readonly='false'" as being an instruction to make the field read-only. But it does. John ============================================= John Moore - Norwich, UK - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================= --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]