in reply to prevent pasting into a CGI textbox

Or you could get the user to first type in the patient identifier in the first textbox and then choose the patient identifier from a listbox (this assumes that the patient identifiers are not too numerous and can be quickly gathered from a database).

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Re^2: prevent pasting into a CGI textbox
by Fletch (Bishop) on Jul 25, 2005 at 13:47 UTC

    And/or do something AJAX-y, like pulling up some distinguishing details about the entered patient identifier into a nearby <div> and make the user click a checkbox after they've verified the information (and the checkbox only becomes clickable after they've entered the patient id).

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