# Uneditable Fields in edit form

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uneditable-fields-in-edit-form/135009>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 17, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uneditable-fields-in-edit-form/135009 "2008-04-17T04:25:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![muyayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@muyayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/muyayi)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uneditable-fields-in-edit-form/135009/1 "2008-04-17T04:25:03Z")

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When using active scaffold, Is there a way to display form fields as  
uneditable in edit form? Thanks a lot…

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**Author:** ![muyayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@muyayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/muyayi)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uneditable-fields-in-edit-form/135009/2 "2008-04-17T05:46:22Z")

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Sounds like a question for the ActiveScaffold forum:  
[http://groups.google.com/group/activescaffold](http://groups.google.com/group/activescaffold)

BTW, if I recall, you can do form overrides to define additional  
details for form bits… so you can override that particular form  
element and set it to be disabled.

-Danimal

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**Author:** ![muyayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@muyayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/muyayi)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 9:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uneditable-fields-in-edit-form/135009/3 "2008-04-17T09:00:50Z")

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just using the scaffolded code u cant achieve this…

U can add disabled attribute to yr code once scaffold is done… then u  
can achieve this,

Regards,  
Ratnavel.

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**Author:** ![muyayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@muyayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/muyayi)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uneditable-fields-in-edit-form/135009/4 "2008-04-17T09:01:32Z")

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like :disabled =\> !new\_record?

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**Author:** ![muyayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@muyayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/muyayi)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 9:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uneditable-fields-in-edit-form/135009/5 "2008-04-17T09:04:18Z")

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sorry like this :disabled =\> !object.new\_record?

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**Author:** ![muyayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@muyayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/muyayi)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 5:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uneditable-fields-in-edit-form/135009/6 "2008-04-21T05:06:18Z")

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thanks for all the replies… i’ll try to use your suggestions. 🙂