textarea and conditional READONLY

[Ramesh Patil]

Hi all,

I have an empty text area. After I paste some text on the textarea, I need to change the textarea to readonly. I would greatly appreciate any help with this.
Thanks
Ramesh Patil

[Niki Nono]

how about making it readonly on change of the text area?

[Ramesh Patil]

Yes but how do you make the READONLY tag conditional

[Niki Nono]

on change {
if (required) {
 make readonly...
}
else
 do other thing.
}

If this is not what you want then i have not understood your problem. please make it more clear.

[Ramesh Patil]

Thank you. It worked . Used DOM

<script language=javascript>
function bevent()
{
var xx = document.xx.btest;
xx.readOnly= true;
}
</script>

<form name=xx>
<textarea name=btest onChange="bevent()" rows="1" cols="20">


</textarea>
</form>