SharePoint: Multiple Lines of Text Field and Single Line Text as Disabled or Read-Only

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Introduction

Disabled or read-only to multiple lines of a text field and single line text in an edit form in a SharePoint list.

Objective

Use of SharePoint Designer to make a field read only. Here is a method to make a field readonly using jQuery and a Content Editor Web Part.

Edit the EditForm.aspx page

If the Edit Page option is missing from the Site Actions menu then use the ToolPaneView=2 URL parameter.

For example

  /EditForm.aspx?ToolPaneView=2Add a Content Editor Web PartAdd the following code (in this example, “Question” is the name of my field):Using the code  $(document).ready(function () {  ConvertTextboxToLable('Title');  ConvertTextareaToLable('Description');  });      //Convert TextArea to Lable                          function ConvertTextareaToLable(colName) {  var   txtHTML = $("textarea[Title='" + colName + "']").html();  var   tdColumn = $("textarea[Title='" + colName + "']").closest('td');  var   tdColumnHTML = $(tdColumn).html();  $(tdColumn).html("<div style='display:none'>'" + tdColumnHTML + "'</div>");  $(tdColumn).append(txtHTML);  }  //Convert Textbox to Lable  function ConvertTextboxToLable(colName)   {  var   txtHTML = $("input[type=text][Title='" + colName + "']").val  ();  var   tdColumn = $("input[type=text][Title='" + colName +  "']"  ).closest('td');  var   tdColumnHTML = $(tdColumn).html();  $(tdColumn).html("<div style='display:none'>'" + tdColumnHTML +  "'</div>"  );  $(tdColumn).append(txtHTML);  } 

Summary

In this article we have several requests for a solution for setting fields as read only in an Edit Form.