Disabled Textarea and arrow keys.

[Smashr]

Great plugin .. thanks !

I have an increment / decrement textarea on the page. There is a "+" and a "-" icon on each side of it. The default functionality is that when the "+" icon is clicked or tapped the value in the textarea increments and vice versa. The textarea is disabled by default.

We wanted to add mousewheel and arrow key functionality to this control, on a disabled textarea the mousewheel functionality works fine but the arrow key functionality does not work. When we remove the disabled attribute, the arrow key functionality works.

Is it possible to have the arrow keys increment the value in a disabled textarea?

We would like to keep the textarea disabled though to prevent users from editing the values directly.

Any help appriciated :) ...

[Smashr]

This issue can be resolved by replacing the "disabled" attribute on the field or textarea with the "readonly" attribute.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_readonly.asp

[nakupanda]

Didn't attr 'readonly' work for you?