HTML | DOM Textarea disabled Property

The DOM Textarea disabled Property is used to set or return whether the textarea element would be disabled or not. A disabled text area is un-clickable and unusable. It is a boolean attribute and used to reflect the HTML Disabled attribute.

Syntax:

It is used to return the disabled property.

textareaObject.disabled

It is used to set the disabled property.

textareaObject.disabled = true|false

Property Values:

true: It defines that the textarea is disabled.
False: It has a default value. It defines that the textarea is not disabled.

Return Value: It returns a boolean value which represent that the textarea is disabled or not.

Example-1: This example illustrates how to set the Textarea disabled property.

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title>DOM textarea disabled Property</title> 
</head> 
  
<body style="text-align:center"> 
    <h1 style="color: green;"> 
      GeeksforGeeks 
  </h1> 
    <h2>DOM textarea disabled Property</h2> 
  
    <p>This text area is non editable.</p> 
  
    <!-- Assigning id to textarea. -->
    <textarea id="GFG" disabled> 
        This textarea field is disabled. 
    </textarea> 
    <br> 
    
    <button onclick="myGeeks()">Submit</button> 
  
    <script> 
        function myGeeks() { 
            
          // Set the textarea property. 
          document.getElementById( 
           "GFG").disabled = false; 
        } 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 

Output:

Before Clicking On Button:

After Clicking On Button :

Example-2 : This example illustrates how to return the Textarea Disabled property.

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title>DOM textarea disabled Property</title> 
</head> 
  
<body style="text-align:center"> 
    
    <h1 style="color: green;">GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
    <h2>DOM textarea disabled Property</h2> 
  
    <p>This text area is non editable.</p> 
  
    <!-- Assigning id to textarea. -->
    <textarea id="GFG" disabled> 
        This textarea field is disabled. 
    </textarea> 
    <br> 
    
    <button onclick="myGeeks()">Submit</button> 
    
    <p id="sudo"></p> 
    
    <script> 
        function myGeeks() { 
            //  Return Boolean value to represent textarea.  
            var x = document.getElementById("GFG").disabled; 
            document.getElementById("sudo").innerHTML = x; 
        } 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 

Output:

Before Clicking On Button:

After Clicking On Button:

Supported Browsers: The browser supported by Textarea Disabled Property are listed below:

Google Chrome
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Opera
Safari

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