HTMLTextAreaElement: disabled property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The disabled property of the HTMLTextAreaElement interface indicates whether this multi-line text control is disabled and cannot be interacted with. It reflects the <textarea> element's disabled attribute. When false, this textarea may still be disabled if its containing element, such as a <fieldset>, is disabled.

Value

A boolean.

Examples

js
const textareaElement = document.getElementById("comment");
if (commentsDisabled) {
  textareaElement.disabled = true;
}

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-fe-disabled

Browser compatibility

See also