HTML | DOM Textarea disabled Property

Last Updated : 06 Feb, 2019

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:

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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>