It's really annoying to prevent copy/paste from an readonly input field. For exemple, you want to generate the paypal api key for an iPhone application, and so, you have to take care of really long and complicate api signature key. It's such a pain to have to do it by some tricky ways like tinyurl or others.

Here another nice solution : The javascript link that auto remove all readonly attribute on all input field in the current page. It's just a bookmark link you can call on all page that contain this kind of stuff.

Here the magic link :

javascript:var%20e=document.getElementsByTagName('INPUT');for(var%20i=0;i%3Ce.length;i++)%7Be%5Bi%5D.removeAttribute('readonly')%7D

To add it, it's simple, copy the line. Click on (+) and “Add to bookmark”. Change the label by “ClearReadOnly”. Click on finish.

Now open your bookmark, click on “Modify”, modify the entry “ClearReadOny”. Remove the address. Paste the one you have copied previously. Click on finish.

That's good. Now if they is a page with an input field set as readonly, and you want to copy it, just call the link with your bookmark manager. It will remove the readonly attribute, and you will be allow to copy the field.

Try it there :

Copy this :

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