Make text box editable using JavaScript

Question

I\'ve a textbox with readonly=\"readonly\" that means I can not edit it. But what I want is to make this textbox editable when user double clicks on it.

Wha

Answer 1

Update:

To make it readonly again:

var el = document.getElementById('txt');
el.onblur = function(){
  this.setAttribute('readonly');
};

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You can do this:

<input size="10" readonly="readonly" id="txt" />

JS:

var el = document.getElementById('txt');
el.ondblclick = function(){
  this.removeAttribute('readonly');
};

Answer 2

as above pure javascript example by sarfraz try to make your javascript unobtrusive much better practice

Also as a lot of people do if you have jquery on page now you can use that to do same

In jquery

$('#txt').removeAttr("readonly");

Answer 3

To make text field editable

document.getElementById("TextFieldId").readOnly=true;

To make text field Uneditable

document.getElementById("TextFieldId").readOnly=false;