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[suggestion] make locked fields readonly instead of disabled
posted by tinybutstrongSTAFFMOD on March 7, 2014 at 9:46 PM
What do you guys think to change locked fields to readonly instead of disabled? so user can copy text easily if necessary.
thx
Reply by lineker
on March 10, 2014 at 9:16 AM
I have no problem copying text from a locked field. I just double-click to mark the text (if it's one word), triple-click if it's more. It feels a bit differently, but works fine.
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 10, 2014 at 10:19 AM
Unfortunately, we take advantage of the fact that disabled fields don't submit within a form. It would add a decent amount of complexity on the server side of we didn't use disabled fields. No sense on re-inventing the wheel here.