Disclaimer text: make the TEXTAREA a "disabled" control. This makes it read-only, AND it won't be submitted in the form.
Alternately, put it into an IFRAME, rather than a TEXTAREA. It will still scroll, but it's a separate HTML document, and not part of a form. This won't work with Lynx, which has no frame support.
Submit button: do likewise, but use client-side script (JavaScript/ECMAscript) to make button "disabled" before submission. Beware, if the user interrupts form submission, they will have to re-load the page, wiping the input fields, before they can submit corrected information.
A radical approach to strict form management is to use two forms: a visible form for user input, and an invisible form for submission. When the user clicks "Submit", a client-side script copies whatever form data from the visible form to the invisible form, then submits the invisible form. |
