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I have a visual force page where I want to disable the user from editing some of the fields on it. I used the css class attribute to identify these fields.

Input Textboxes were disabled successfully using this approach, but the lookup fields are still accessible.

How can I disable the lookup fields so that the user is unable to make any changes?

Declaration of Field:

<apex:inputField styleClass="makeSelectReadOnly" value="{!Opportunity.AccountId}" required="true"/>

JQuery to disable the field:

jQuery(".makeSelectReadOnly").attr("disabled","true");

Screenshot: Screenshot of VF page

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  • use the same jquery to hide the lookup icon element......
    – Eric
    Nov 1, 2016 at 16:17
  • This looks promising. I just need to find out where the element is.
    – abhi
    Nov 1, 2016 at 16:19
  • jQuery(".lookupIcon").hide(); works, but also hides the icon for the Opportunity Owner which needs to stay. :)
    – abhi
    Nov 1, 2016 at 16:23
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    If you are ok with just showing the account name (without the disabled input), just use apex:outputField
    – willard
    Nov 1, 2016 at 16:24
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    if you really want to use jquery, try jQuery('.makeSelectReadOnly').next().click(function(e){e.preventDefault();})
    – willard
    Nov 1, 2016 at 16:29

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The JQeury doesn't handle the lookup button..

In case it is always disable consider using instead : apx:outputField

If it depend on criteria you can add both input & output but show only 1 of them:

<apex:inputField styleClass="makeSelectReadOnly" value="{!Opportunity.AccountId}" required="true" rendered="{!openForEdit==true}"/>
<apex:outputield styleClass="makeSelectReadOnly" value="{!Opportunity.AccountId}" rendered="{!openForEdit==false}"/>
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  • This is what I have done with all the dateFields on the page and I was hoping to avoid this.
    – abhi
    Nov 1, 2016 at 16:24
  • @SantanuBoral <apex:outputField value="{!Opportunity.AccountId}"/> works just fine for me in a visualforce page being displayed on one of my standard layouts.
    – Derek F
    Nov 1, 2016 at 16:38
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    Gotta agree with going with standard functionality in this case. This is exactly what the <apex:output*> components were meant to do. +1 from me.
    – Derek F
    Nov 1, 2016 at 16:40
  • Again, you can use only <apex:outputField... if it's always should be disabled.
    – Liron C
    Nov 1, 2016 at 16:48
  • I had to do this in order to make this work the way I wanted. I am now hiding / showing the field or text depending on the view mode.
    – abhi
    Nov 2, 2016 at 13:50
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My thoughts on this would be to use the <apex:outputField /> tag on occasions that you don't want the user to be able to edit the field.

<apex:inputField rendered="{!NOT(makeSelectReadOnly)}" value="{!Opportunity.AccountId}" required="true"/>
<apex:outputField rendered="{!makeSelectReadOnly}" value="{!Opportunity.AccountId}" required="true"/>

Where makeSelectReadOnly is a boolean variable populated in the apex class.

Just know that if you mark it as required="true" and the field has no value, it will cause the page to error.

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