I have a form that uses javascript to populate a textarea with some text. The user should be able to copy the text, and I've used the code below to make the textarea readonly.
<textarea readonly id="newList" name="newList" placeholder="When you click
the button below, your list appears here. Copy and paste it into your
new document. Use CTRL-A to quickly select all items."></textarea>
Works great in Chrome, but in IE10 the textarea is STILL not readonly, and when a user clicks in it the text that they want to copy disappears, replaced by the cursor. It has nothing to do with my javascript -- I removed the "script" line from my HTML and this still happens.
Is there an easy way to make a textarea readonly in Internet Explorer?