jQuery: Stop people from writing in a text box

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:45 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

jQuery Events : Exercise-10 with Solution

Stop people from writing in first text input box (user ID).

Sample Data :

<body>
<p>User ID : <input type="text" id='field1'></p>
<p>Password : <input type="password" id='field2'>
</body>

Solution:

HTML Code:


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Stop people from writing in first text input box</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>User ID : <input type="text" id='field1'></p>
<p>Password : <input type="password" id='field2'> </p>
</body>
</html>

JavaScript Code :


$( "input[type=text]" ).focus(function() {
  $( this ).blur();
});

Live Demo:

See the Pen jquery-events-exercise-10 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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