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abarker Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 07 July 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote abarker Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Disabling the editor Posted: 03 August 2005 at 11:43am
	I want to do to RTE something similar to what happens to an html input element when it's disabled attribute is set - you know, the input area gets greyed-out and you can't edit the text. I want to disable the editor this way so I can prevent user input until a certain action is done and then re-enable it. Does anybody know how to do this? Thanks

old_techhead Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 03 August 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote old_techhead Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 August 2005 at 1:57pm
	I would think the simplest way would be to have some code in the page that had pseudocode similar to: if permission_not_allowed display RTE_text in table cell (no textarea) else display RTE_text in textarea (in table cell) end if then when permission_is_granted just go through the pseudocode again. Hope that helps. The secret here is to not display the code inside a textarea until you want to be able to edit it.

abarker Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 07 July 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote abarker Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 August 2005 at 2:11pm
	Thanks for your reply. I could elminate the RTE textarea at times when I don't want it to be edited, but then the editor would disappear. I want it to appear to the user as if the editor is there, but not able to be edited.

old_techhead Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 03 August 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote old_techhead Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 August 2005 at 2:48pm
	Ok... try the tips in this article. This should do what you want... http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/868/fid/130

abarker Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 07 July 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote abarker Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 August 2005 at 3:15pm
	Thanks again for the reply. The problem with this approach is that the textarea element that is used by RTE for some reason isn't affected by the disabled attribute. I tried it. For example, the following code normally gives me a disabled textarea: <textarea name="mytext" cols="70" rows="15" id="mytext" disabled="disabled"></textarea> However, when I add the rest of the html/asp code to the page to have RTE use this textarea, the textarea will no longer be disabled. I'm not sure how RTE does it, but it effectively invalidates the disabled property for this textarea. I think it'd be great if Web Wiz just included the 'disable' property as a special property that could be turned on and off on the fly since disabling its textarea doesn't do the trick.

dpyers Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 12 May 2003 Status: Offline Points: 3937	Post Options Post Reply Quote dpyers Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 August 2005 at 2:24am
	Can't you just put it in a div and use javascript/dhtml to toggle the display off/on?
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abarker Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 07 July 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote abarker Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 August 2005 at 8:14am
	Yes, that would be a fine solution and I almost did that. But what I really want, for the user's sake, is a way for the wywiwyg editor to be visible but just 'greyed out', like disabled text areas. Thanks for the suggestion though.

dpyers Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 12 May 2003 Status: Offline Points: 3937	Post Options Post Reply Quote dpyers Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 August 2005 at 12:27pm
	It's a little hoky, but you could put it in a div and use z-order to put that div behind another of the same size that has an opaque .gif in it. As long as the div with the opaque .gif is on top and/or displayed it'll intercept anything the user clicks while "dimming" the form. You can use java script to either toggle the z-order or the display.
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