How to make DNN textfield readonly

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How do you make a textfield readonly in DotNetNuke?

I have this code but its not working:

DnnFormTextBoxItem.Enabled = false;

Is this in a custom module, on an existing module, or somewhere else? — Chris Hammond, Feb 04 '13 at 21:20
It's an existing control but it is still editable after setting the enabled property to false. — Owen Lilly, Feb 04 '13 at 21:23
I tried readonly but it didn't work, I resolved the issue though with the answer below. — Owen Lilly, Feb 05 '13 at 15:24

Tri Nguyen Dung · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-05T05:23:50.877

In DotnetNuke, I only use dnn tag for text editor, with text field I use asp:TextBox tag and it can be disable or set readonly. But if you use dnn:Texteditor then there is no way to disable or set it to readonly. It only can be setted to visible or invisible.

Another solution for disable a texteditor in DotnetNuke is to retrive value from texteditor and paste it to a label then hide the text editor.

I have a short code here in C#. Imagine that you have a TextEditor1 and Label1 controls in your page and they are stay side-to-side to other but Label1 have an empty value. There is the code behind to setting an attribute for DNN TextEditor:

string teValue = TextEditor1.Value;
Label1.Text = teValue;
TextEditor1.Visible = false;

In the code above, you will show value of TextEditor1 in a Label (Label1) and then hide the TextEditor1 control, so that user only see the content of DNN TextEditor but nolonger be able to edit it after doing some post-back.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 04 '13 at 22:08

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I have seen people use

<dnn:DnnFormLiteralItem>

In my modules, I use the standard

<asp:TextBox>

answered Feb 04 '13 at 22:08

Simcha Khabinsky

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How to make DNN textfield readonly

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