Terms and Conditions Text - Record in Form Entries database

In creating a form that contains Terms and Conditions, I have placed the T&C text in a Section Break field, in the contents.
It displays fine on the form.

The issue is - when the user submits the form, I want all fields they filled out (like normal), AND the T&C text to be placed into the Entries database.

Currently, when they complete the form, the Section Break Title ('Terms' in my case) is returned to the Entries database, but not the 'content' of the Section Break field, which is where I actually have the T&C text placed.

The reason that I need this is that in reality, if I do not have the T&C text in the Entries database, I can't prove what they agreed to on the form.

Another solution that I read in another post is to create a Paragraph field, with Default Text, and place my T&C text there. The problem with this method is that the user can MODIFY the text in the paragraph field, thereby providing a chance that they might alter the Terms (and we would not catch it).

Is there a way to do this?

Hi Lee,
I placed the code

if ($("li.gf_readonly")){ $("li.gf_readonly input").attr("readonly","readonly"); }

in my footer.php file, right above wp_footer();
Then added the gf_readonly class to my paragraph field.
I was still able to edit the paragraph text...
What am I doing wrong?

Lee,
Hmmmm.... still not working.
I changed it to

if ($("li.gf_readonly")){ $("li.gf_readonly textarea").attr("readonly","readonly"); }

It is directly above

<?php wp_footer() ?>

in my footer.php file. Using WordPress 3.1.2

I was still able to edit the text in the paragraph field of the form.
I must be missing something.

Had an error on Firebug console.
Changed header.php to

jQuery(document).ready(function($){
if ($("li.gf_readonly")){ $("li.gf_readonly textarea").attr("readonly","readonly"); }
});

Still not working...

Hi Lee,
I have this code in header.php:

<script>
if (jQuery("li.gf_readonly")){
    	jQuery("li.gf_readonly textarea").attr("readonly","readonly");
}
</script>

If the paragraph field is readonly, it should not have a scroll bar on the right, correct? I tested it and it still lets me alter the text.

Now I'm getting this error in the FB console:
jQuery is not defined
Line 12

Line 12 is your code...

Hi Carl,
Ok, I did what you suggested. But still not working...

I can't believe that there isn't an easier solution to this (returning text to the database)?

Hi David,
That code didn't work.
Got parse errors. Removed php tags, then got an error on this line:

<script type="text/javascript">

Not expecting <

Any ideas?

David -
That worked!
THIS should be in the documentation somewhere?
It would be nice if there was a new feature in future release that would enable an easy option to make a field readonly?

Last question - since this is a paragraph text field, there is a scroll bar on the right when displaying the form. Not a big deal, but in my case, I would just as soon display all or the text, with no scroll.
Is this possible?

Thanks again for your help!

Guys, What about single lined text fields or pre-selected checkboxes? I'm trying to apply this code from my end on single lined pre-populated username and email fields for logged in users but its not working.

Can you pretty please implement this option in the future?? a simple checkbox next to the field indicating it would be "Read-only" would do it.

Common case scenarios for this feature would be:
Blog using a the GF Registration add-on, Users create their profiles and log in, pending on their roles, they can post articles to the blog, hence when submitting the post, the Username and Email field would be pre-populated using the "Default Value : Insert variable" approach and right there, a Read-only checkbox can make life easier to block the field from being edited.

Just a friendly suggestion for the non-programmers out there :)

You can easily implement this for input fields by changing this line in the code:
jQuery("li.gf_readonly input").attr("readonly","readonly");

Make sure under Advanced -> you add the css class of gf_readonly to each input you would like as read only....

That's my 2 cents and works like a charm following the instructions above.