title: HTML.TextAreaFor MVC3
body: <p>I have a large amount of text data that I want to display in something like a HTML.TextAreaFor().  I tried this using the readonly html property.  However, the user can still select the date and click into the box.  It's confusing for the user.  Is there another control I can use or are ther other attrubutes of the HTML.TextAreaFor() that I can use to make it look un-edittable. </p>
  
  <pre><code>@Html.TextArea("SOWDescription", Model.SowDescription,
       new { rows = 5, cols = 50, @class = "celltext2", @readonly="true" })
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>TextAreaFor
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VAoHq.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>