How to fill a textbox via code and then lock it so user can't change it.

[Fred]

I did not get any response when I first posted this under a slighty
different subject. If this is not the appropriate group, please let
me know which group might be..

I have a web page where as part of entering an order, the user selects
a date from a dateTime picker control. Any changes to that date
should also be made using the picker control.

I would like to show this date on the page once it has been selected
and keep the user from changing it except by using the calendar.

I have been showing it in a text box. I have set the .Disable
property to true for the textbox, but this of course keeps the
dateTimePicker from being able to post the date selected to the text
box.

In Visual Basic, there is a label control for this purpose which does
not allow the user to change the text in the label. (it can be set at
design time or programatically). Apparently, FrontPage does not have
a label control.

So, how can I lock the user out of changing the text in the text box?

How can I set Disabled to False, post the date, and then reset
Disabled to True?

Another alternative would be to show the date in the page's text.
Currently, I have form text that says "Date required: " beside the
text box. Ideally, I would like to eliminate the textbox altogether
and update the form text to say "Date Required: 08/31/2007" after the
user has selected the due date.

Can I do that in Front Page?

Thank you.

Fred

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

This has nothing to do with FP, the function is not supported in html forms and VB can not be used
on web unless you know that all of your users will be on Windows running IE.

If your site is hosted on a Windows IIS web server, then you can use ASP/VBScript to display the
date as text with a link to a page, etc that would allow the selection of the date.

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