Question

i know <textarea name="textarea" disabled="disabled">dsds</textarea> can disable write in the textarea ,

but how to disable one line i want to disable in the textarea ?

not all line

thanks

Answer 1

Yes, use multiple input texts appear like a single text area, let’s call it fake text area. That way disabling one would be easy.

• Do not put any margin in between them and no border, all having same width.
• Assign incremental ids to each one – like input-1,input-2 etc.

• If you want to prefill some text into the fake textarea, calculate the maximum length that can be accomodated into a single input and fill line by line using javascript (jquery would be better).

• When cursor is at the end of an input text and enter is pressed, take cursor to next text input. Define a function for every such possibility and call it.

• On posting the form, append the input values together to get the actual value of the faked text area.

I guess there may be difficulties in faking a scrollbar for such a textarea but once implemented, should work fine. Any existing plugins like this?

Updates
– For handling cursor positions, refer these things. I did not try myself but may be useful – Jquery Caret position and How to get cursor position in textarea and you can apply the cursor position getting-setting logics. Somehow try to get the actual click position and force the cursor to stay there.