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How to hide the text box blinking cursor?

Answer 1

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To be exact: Do you want to allow input in this text box without blinking cursor shown?

JohnM2 2010-01-29 13:26:49

This isn't an answer. Put questions for clarification in the comments under the question.

Aaron 2010-01-29 13:28:20

What's the lower rep-cap for posting comments? Currently he's at 89, and I think it used to be 150 before you were allowed/able to post comments to others' questions/answers? (It's not ideal, regardless, but perhaps understandable)

David Thomas 2010-01-29 13:31:07

You only need 50 rep to post comments.

Aaron 2010-01-29 13:34:37

@ricebowl - I appreciate your "give the guy a break" level of understanding, comments are enabled at 50 rep, but if he's new he may simply not know "protocol"

curtisk 2010-01-29 13:35:58

Ah, my bad then; at +50 he really should've had time to get used to the etiquette. =)

David Thomas 2010-01-29 13:38:00

Answer 2

+1 A:

<input type=text disabled=true />

because i can't see any other reason you might want to do that.

gcb 2010-01-29 13:29:48

I need to edit the text box but blinking cursor should not be shown.

santose 2010-01-29 13:35:14

@santose: Why? What's the issue with the cursor? just curious?

curtisk 2010-01-29 13:37:42

I want to customize it where it should not look like text box

santose 2010-01-29 13:42:30

The correct attribute value is `disabled` and not `true`: `disabled="disabled"`.

Gumbo 2010-01-29 13:51:32

@Gumbo: that's correct for XHTML, but there's not often a need to use XHTML. Easiest is to write pages in HTML and use just `disabled`, with no value.

Tim Down 2010-01-29 14:06:27

@Tim Down: The correct value for HTML is `disabled` too. There it’s just that the attribute value can be omitted since the only valid attribute value `disabled` is implied (see http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#adef-disabled).

Gumbo 2010-01-29 14:23:08

@Gumbo: well yes. There are two correct ways of using a boolean attribute in HTML 4: on its own with no value or with a value that is the same as its name. Neither is more correct than the other, although the following line at the bottom of http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.3.4.2 is worth noting: "Authors should be aware that many user agents only recognize the minimized form of boolean attributes and not the full form.".

Tim Down 2010-01-29 15:07:08

Answer 3

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Santose, you need to make a custom web control and inherit textbox class.

2010-01-29 13:50:16

Making a custom web control sounds interesting. But how do you do that?

Majid 2010-01-29 14:05:29

Answer 4

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Try CodeMirror as an text input solution. Its nice and im sure you can tune it to hide blinking cursor if you want to...

NilColor 2010-01-29 14:13:54

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