I just remembered that we utilized this trick⁣​ back when IE 6? used to render 
disabled text inputs with unreadable colors.

Sven

Am 2. Dez. 2016, 12:19, um 12:19, Sven Meier <[email protected]> schrieb:
>Hi,
>
>too bad the Firefox developers can't read a spec correctly :P
>
>https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-html5-20141028/forms.html#the-readonly-attribute
>"The difference between disabled and readonly is that read-only
>controls
>are still focusable, so the user can still select the text and interact
>
>with it, whereas disabled controls are entirely non-interactive."
>
>All text on a web page is 'entirely non-interactive', nevertheless I
>can
>still select and copy it. IMHO copying text from a disabled input
>doesn't mean I'm interacting with it.
>
>But what's wrong with this solution:
>
>                 input.add(new Behavior() {
>                     @Override
>                     public void onComponentTag(Component component,
>ComponentTag tag) {
>                         super.onComponentTag(component, tag);
>
>                         if (component.isEnabled() == false) {
>                             tag.remove("disabled");
>                             tag.put("readonly", "readonly");
>                         }
>                     }
>                 }));
>
>You can add this behavior to all your inputs via an
>IComponentInstantiationListener.
>
>Regards
>Sven
>
>
>
>On 02.12.2016 10:07, Dan Haywood wrote:
>> The Apache Isis project [1] uses Wicket for its main viewer, and we
>> recently had this question [2] on our mailing list is:
>>
>> I believe it was mentioned once in another thread that selecting text
>> (and so copying) from a disabled field doesn't work in Firefox on
>> Windows. Since a week or two it's not possible on a lot of Chrome
>> installations of our users either, probably due to a Chrome update.
>This
>> really is a big problem for our users because we share a lot of
>> configuration data for internet access and telephony services and
>> copying data makes sure they don't make mistakes while configuring
>their
>> systems.
>>
>> Would it be a problem to use the read only attribute instead of the
>> disabled attribute? That would be an easy fix.
>>
>>
>> Martin G suggested a possible fix using CSS, but unfortunately to no
>> avail.  Since this presumably could impact all Wicket users, the
>suggestion
>> [3] was to re-raise the question here.
>>
>> So, are there any thoughts on this?  Is there any way to enable
>select text
>> for a disabled input field for both latest Chrome and Firefox?
>>
>> Thx
>> Dan
>>
>> [1] http://isis.apache.org/
>> [2]
>>
>https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/354ff5bb35c3dd60fbe643f824951c9665aa7546d79562cf15e014f7@%3Cusers.isis.apache.org%3E
>> [3]
>>
>https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/566709f02cc6a4607d1f86d98e19ec1e7d39a2a255dc9895d5800635@%3Cusers.isis.apache.org%3E
>>

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