# How to disable textbox in Ruby?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-disable-textbox-in-ruby/94588>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 8, 2006, 11:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-disable-textbox-in-ruby/94588 "2006-05-08T11:41:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![tiwaripk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@tiwaripk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tiwaripk)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 11:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-disable-textbox-in-ruby/94588/1 "2006-05-08T11:41:18Z")

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Hi,  
I want to disable textbox in my page so that user can not modify its  
contents. How can we do that in ruby?

Thanx,  
Prash

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**Author:** ![tiwaripk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@tiwaripk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tiwaripk)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 12:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-disable-textbox-in-ruby/94588/2 "2006-05-08T12:09:00Z")

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This is not related to ruby but html.

Please change the view code to make it enable or disable.

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**Author:** ![tiwaripk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@tiwaripk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tiwaripk)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-disable-textbox-in-ruby/94588/3 "2006-05-08T16:54:07Z")

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-Nathan

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**Author:** ![tiwaripk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@tiwaripk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tiwaripk)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-disable-textbox-in-ruby/94588/4 "2006-05-09T14:51:41Z")

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> \<%= text\_field ‘object’, ‘method’, “disabled”=\>“disabled” %\>

“readonly” will also work.

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**Author:** ![tiwaripk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@tiwaripk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tiwaripk)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-disable-textbox-in-ruby/94588/5 "2006-05-08T17:47:17Z")

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On Monday, May 08, 2006, at 3:51 PM, wrote:

> > > Hi,  
> > > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)
> 
> * * *
> 
> Rails mailing list  
> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
> [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)

or…

\<%= text\_field ‘object’, ‘method’, “disabled”=\>“disabled” %\>

\_Kevin