Disable textarea with IE7

JavaScript
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I got two textareas. I push a form button and some text fills both textareas, lets say “x” for area one and “y” for area two. I then disable the first textarea with a another button so that when I push the fill button again, only textarea two gets updated. To do that I use this:

document.myform.mytextarea.disabled=true;

It works on Firefox, Opera, IE8, but not on IE7. With IE7 both textareas change content, in does not matter that I disabled the first one. I get the same problem if I use:

document.form1.textruta.disabled=“disabled”;

Any suggestions?

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Short update.

I was mistaken. I does not work on any browser.

The javascript code disables the textarea in the meaning that the user cannot manually delete och add stuff to the textarea. But if I push the desribed fill button both areas gets updated - which I wanted to avoid.

So my question is: how do I lock the content in the textarea? None of these methods works.

Here’s my example: http://privat.bahnhof.se/wb846624/index.htm

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disabling a textarea prevents the user entering content ,
prevents the field from being included when its form is submitted,
and takes it out of the tab-to next field collection by blocking focus to it.

It does not prevent you from writing to its value with a script-
just check it’s disabled property before you change the value.

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I don’t follow you. I am not very good at this. What do you mean by “check it’s disabled property before you change the value”?