Thanks all your replies were very helpful; its a subtle effect of -disabled . Still seems undesirable to leave this out of the post, since if I only wanted to display the value, I would have just printed it, and not had it in an input text box with a name and value.

I am familiar with *readonly*, and in fact it's what I ended up using. It still allows users to CLICK in the box however, which yields email to me like "hey I can't CHANGE this value- why??". When they cant click in the box it behaves like any other static page text, and I don't get those questions.. My javascript guy is seeing if he can get me some .css type that prevents clicking in the box.

Wow like 4 great replies, with no haters, flames, or abuse. Things are looking up here! Kudos guys :)

THanks again,
MP

In reply to Re^4: Perl CGI -disabled by misterperl
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